Insurance Due Diligence in M&A Deals: Evaluating Coverage and Gaps, Mitigating Risks and Potential Liabilities
Recording of a 90-minute premium CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide guidance to deal attorneys for conducting insurance due diligence in M&A transactions. The panel will discuss strategies for identifying coverage gaps and potential insurance-related liabilities and drafting insurance-related risk provisions in M&A agreements, and an overview the availability of certain types of insurance (such as representations and warranties policies) to help close the deal.
Outline
- Conducting due diligence
- Identify coverage and gaps
- Identify potential liabilities
- Drafting insurance-related risk provisions in the M&A agreement
- Impact of insurance on deal value
- Representations and Warranties and tax liability policies
- Insurance products to help close the deal
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- The best approaches for counsel to identify and examine insurance-related liabilities and coverage gaps during due diligence
- The most critical insurance-related information buyers’ counsel should request from the target company during due diligence
- The impact of insurance on deal value
- Provisions to include in the M&A agreement to address insurance vulnerabilities and mitigate deal risk
Faculty
B. Scott Burton
Partner
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Mr. Burton focuses on corporate mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and the taxation of... | Read More
Mr. Burton focuses on corporate mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities, and the taxation of insurance companies and insurance and annuity products. His experience includes representing buyers and sellers in acquisitions and dispositions of private and publicly held life and property and casualty insurance companies, blocks of insurance business, and investment advisers.
CloseAmy J. Fink
Partner
Jones Day
Ms. Fink advises clients on a wide range of general and complex insurance-related issues, including coverage for... | Read More
Ms. Fink advises clients on a wide range of general and complex insurance-related issues, including coverage for products liability, environmental, asbestos, intellectual property, construction, products recall, directors and officers, toxic tort, employment practices, workers' compensation, and securities-related claims. She also has an active commercial litigation practice in numerous other areas, including railroad, defamation, eminent domain, shareholder derivative actions, fraud, and unfair business practices.
CloseThomas S. Novak
Member
Sills Cummis & Gross
Mr. Novak focuses his practice on insurance law, representing insurance carriers, insurance producers and... | Read More
Mr. Novak focuses his practice on insurance law, representing insurance carriers, insurance producers and policyholders. He handles insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes involving Director and Officer, professional errors and omissions, excess and umbrella, surety, fidelity, property and general liability policies. He handles a wide variety of insurance producer litigation including brokerage errors and omissions claims by policyholders, agency disputes with carriers, contingent commission claims and intra-broker disputes.
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