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How Private Equity Funds Can Use Contingent Liability Insurance to Offload Legal and Regulatory Hurdles in M&A Deals
One of the lessons I learned working with private equity and transactional insurance is that a known liability does not necessarily have to kill a transaction or even permanently depress a company’s valuation. A company or asset may have a significant underinsured or uninsured liability—litigation, environmental exposure, a toxic tort claim, or another contingent risk—that neither the buyer nor the seller wants to retain. The buyer may respond by substantially discounting the

Mike Mitrovic
Aug 242 min read
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