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Best Practices for Negotiating the Right Reps & Warranties Insurance
Opportunities and Optimism: M&A Deal Trends — A Recap Discussion Around ACG Atlanta M&A South Panel
Maximizing RWI Recovery Claims: Don’t Be Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Reps & Warranties Insurance Claims: Getting to “Yes”
Reps & Warranties Insurance: Sealing The Deal
Six Things You Need to Know About Life Sciences M&A During and After COVID-19
The Importance Of Cybersecurity During A Merger & Acquisition Transaction
Negotiating a basket mechanism into your merger or acquisition agreement? One of the questions it pays to ask (and answer) early on is how that basket mechanism will function with the retention amount you will be negotiating...more
Please join Williams Mullen attorneys Jon Bliley and Rakesh Parikh as they discuss the latest trends in middle-market M&A, touching on several topics, including rep & warranty insurance and indemnification....more
As background, secondary transactions have proven useful to both limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs) who are looking to manage their portfolios during a stale or sluggish economic market. GPs in particular use...more
The ABA Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Study is published on a bi-annual basis. The 2021 Deal Points Study (the “Study”) analyzed 123 publicly available purchase agreements executed and closed in 2020 and...more
SPAC lawsuits are increasing in frequency. There was a big jump in the number of SPAC-related cases from 2020 to 2021. Five new securities class actions were filed against SPACs in just the first two months of 2022. Several...more
More and more buyers are using representation and warranty insurance (RWI) to supplement or replace indemnities from a seller in the sale of a business in Canada. While some of our clients, particularly private equity funds,...more
Increasingly, M&A transactions are using representation and warranty insurance (RWI) to bridge the gap between a buyer’s desire for adequate recourse to recover damages arising out of breach of representations in the purchase...more
Due in large part to greater awareness of the strategic value of representation and warranty insurance (RWI), an increasingly competitive underwriting market in Canada (resulting in lower costs, lower deductibles and more...more
Note: This is the first in a series of posts that will discuss the use of RWI in Mergers & Acquisitions. Essential to a buyer’s and seller’s evaluation of the purchase and sale of a company is the allocation of...more
Canadian M&A practitioners are increasingly using representation and warranty (R&W) insurance as a competitive tool in deal negotiations. The insurance, which provides coverage for breaches of a seller’s representations and...more