Insurance due diligence for M&As

• Determination of a written timetable
• Accumulation and assessment of all available information  
• Establishing of an overview of the insurance- and risk management program with particular attention to:
• - The extent of the concerned insurances 

The costs of the existing insurance program 

The risk potential of past liability claims 

Our proposal to new risk management and insurance program 

Costs of our proposed program 

• Completion of our report, which may be presented to banks and other institutions as an official document of an independent expert.

In order to cover all conceivable risk situations in the context of a new insurance- and risk management program, we work with several innovative insurance products.

• Warranty and indemnity (insurance of warranties and liabilities at sales- and purchase agreements)  
• Tax indemnity (insurance for unresolved current or potential disputes with the tax authorities due to tax payments)  
• Prospectus liability (insurance for prospectus liability, especially for the initial public offering)  
• Litigation buy-out (insurance of uncertain outcomes – timely as well as quantitatively – of legal disputes at the time of the conclusion of the agreement)  
• Credit enhancements (exchange of original bank guarantees on the part of the company taking over by insured obligations to improve credit rating) 
• Environmental buy-out (insurance against environmentally relevant contamination of properties or facilities