HKMB HUB International's experienced Mergers & Acquisitions Team can help you develop creative ways to avoid or eliminate risk and insurance deal breakers, thus, mitigating some of the uncertainties that prevent deals from closing. We know how to tap into today's evolving insurance marketplace to harness its capacity for your situation.
The breadth of risks covered in the Mergers & Acquisitions risk marketplace sometimes seems limited only by the imagination. Here are just some of the merger-related services and insurance policies that HKMB HUB can arrange:
Coverage of Direct M&A Risks
| Insurance Policy |
Purpose of Coverage |
|---|---|
| Representations and Warranties See our detailed discussion on Reps and Warranties |
To replace or reduce indemnification requirement under purchase-and-sale agreement |
| Tax Opinion Liability |
To address potential liability resulting from an adverse tax ruling |
| Aborted-Bid Cost Insurance |
To reimburse the company for external costs resulting from an aborted transaction |
| Envirocap |
To cover cost overruns from environmental remediation projects |
| Portfolio Transfers |
To assume a company's entire portfolio of multiple liabilities (often casualty or product liabilities) |
Coverage of M&A Financial Risks
| Insurance Policy |
Purpose of Coverage |
|---|---|
| Litigation Liability Cap | To cap liability associated with existing litigation |
| Litigation Risk Arbitrage | To transfer the entire liability for the litigation to an insurance company for a one-time premium |
| Litigation Retro Funding | To provide the insured company an alternate method to finance a settlement |
