Webinar - Mergers and acquisitions – key insurance issues session

Overview

Mergers and acquisitions – key insurance issues

This session looks at some of the insurance issues faced during a client merger or acquisition and explores some of the insurance solutions available.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Be aware of the key insurance considerations during a client merger or acquisition.
• Understand how additional liabilities may be acquired.
• Know the additional insurance products available to deal with M&A risks.
• Types of M&A – management buyouts, private equity investment, acquisitions of new subsidiaries, refinancing.
• Common insurance issues seen in a M&A o Past liabilities that may be acquired (e.g., TUPE, environmental). Run -off issues (PI, products)
• D&O issues (change of control clauses, run-off).
• Asset cover between signing and completion (contracting purchasers’ clauses, BI).
• Checking a sale/purchase agreement (SPA)
• Transaction liability products (W&I, Tax Indemnity, Legal Opinion).
• Legal indemnities (e.g., restrictive covenants, lost documents).

Diane Jenkins - Nick Thomas & Associates

Nick Thomas & Associates provide specialist training solutions to the UK Insurance Industry to include technical insurance; sales, business/soft skills; resilience, performance, and wellbeing; and management/leadership sessions. We work with major insurers and brokers, on a global Insurer’s national broker proposition delivery, with recruitment companies, and over 40 Insurance Institutes at the time of writing.