Transactional Risk Services

Marsh USA

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Published: 01-Feb- 2011 | Product Category: Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions (PEMA) | Comments: 0

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Marsh’s Private Equity and M&A Services Practice offers a full suite of solutions and services that can help companies to reduce risks associated with specific merger and acquisition situations. Our dedicated transactional risk team employs insurance capital to help clients address known liabilities, assist in transferring risk associated with contingent liabilities, help reduce or eliminate escrows and indemnities, provide insurance solutions that may offset an existing reserve or liability on the target’s balance sheet.

Marsh's solutions help to protect earnings and cash flow, accelerate cash distribution and protect against claw-back exposure. Solutions include:

Representations and Warranty Insurance;
Environmental Caps and Buyouts;
Contingent Liabilities/Litigation Solutions;
Tax Indemnity; and
Credit Enhancement.

Marsh’s Private Equity and M&A Services practice offers a spectrum of post-acquisition services to help companies reduce cost and enhance risk management. Our teams:
Assess and benchmark retained losses to identify opportunities to reduce occurrences and minimize collateral obligations.
Provide in-depth loss analysis to facilitate deployment of loss reduction solutions.
Design a loss reduction strategy that integrates insurer, broker and client resources.
Drive and monitor execution of the loss reduction strategy.
Identify opportunities to close aged claims and claim reserves.
Evaluate the feasibility of alternative risk management strategies and solutions.

Post Acquisition Integration

Marsh provides principal investors advice on post-acquisition integration through strategic and human resources consulting.

Our professionals:

implement go-forward plan integration strategy;
provide documentation to lenders;
design and implement new programs as needed to fit business strategy;
work with portfolio companies to identify ongoing cost reduction opportunities;
develop performance measures for benefit plans;
advise on assimilating programs, policies, and systems into workforce procedures;
implement effective communication procedures;
provide ongoing employee and workplace consulting; and
provide performance monitoring.