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Mergers & Acquisitions Insurance

In today’s deal environment, speed, certainty and protection matter more than ever. As private equity firms, corporates, and strategic buyers pursue acquisitions across borders and sectors, risk transfer solutions are playing a more prominent role in enabling clean exits and confident investment.

Whether it’s a W&I policy to protect the buyer from unknown risks or a specific known risk policy to help unlock additional deal value, transactional risks insurance allows buyers and sellers to move quickly while mitigating potential liabilities.

Our sister company, HWF Partners, are a specialist transactional risk insurance broker and advisor with significant expertise in structuring bespoke insurance solutions, to offer the best-in-class transactional risk solutions

Risk Solutions for Mergers & Acquisitions

We advise strategically and place transactional risk cover for private equity sponsors, institutional investors, strategic buyers, family offices, and corporates. Key solutions include:

  • Warranty & Indemnity / Representations & Warranties (RWI)
  • Tax Liability Insurance
  • Contingent Risk Insurance
  • Environmental Liability (Transaction-Specific)
  • Litigation Buyout Cover
  • Prospectus and Capital Markets Insurance
  • View all Transactional Risk solutions

Insurance Due Diligence (IDD)

Insurance Due Diligence provides an independent assessment of a target company’s insurance programme ahead of an acquisition, divestment or refinancing. By identifying insurance-related risks, liabilities and opportunities, IDD helps buyers protect deal value, improve transaction certainty and plan for successful integration.

Independent, comprehensive IDD can also help to enhance W&I policy coverage by reducing the breadth, or removing altogether, operational insurance related exclusions.

Why partner with Price Forbes & HWF?

We support transactional placements with discretion, speed and specialist structuring insight.

  • Truly international reach – We partner with brokers globally on multi-jurisdictional transactions.
  • Deep transactional expertise – Our team understands legal deal structures, cross-border tax, and the strategic use of insurance in the M&A process.
  • London & Bermuda access – We secure capacity for challenging placements, often beyond the reach of local markets.
  • Collaborative wholesale model – We work behind the scenes to support your client strategy and enhance your submission.
  • Deal-driven delivery – We match your pace and confidentiality requirements with underwriter engagement and issue resolution.

Mergers & Acquisitions Insurance

Frequently Asked Questions

Warranty & Indemnity (or Representations & Warranties) insurance protects against breaches of representations in an M&A deal. Buyers often purchase it to reduce reliance on seller indemnities, while sellers use it to secure clean exits.

Tax insurance can cover identified exposures such as loss of a deduction, recharacterisation of a transaction, or challenges by tax authorities. It provides certainty for deal parties where tax risk may otherwise delay or block completion.

These policies are highly bespoke and can cover litigation, regulatory matters, warranty claims, pensions, or IP issues that threaten the value of a transaction.

We would advise allowing 5 business days to source terms following receipt of an information memorandum (or similar) and draft acquisition agreement. Once an insurer is selected, we would advise allowing another 5 business days for the underwriting phase following receipt of due diligence. We can move quicker if needed subject to deal timetables, subject to deal complexity and underwriting access.

Yes. We work across buyouts, carve-outs, SPACs, IPOs and secondary transactions, helping brokers secure the right coverage for the deal profile.

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