M&A Insurance Broker of the Year
Aon
Aon is a clear leader in terms of M&A insurance deal flow, having arranged M&A insurance limits on c.900 deals representing in excess of $300bn of deal value, globally, of which more than $13 billion of limits were secured on approximately 240 deals with an aggregated EV in excess of $60 billion in EMEA (including the UK), with more than $5 billion in limits secured on c.60 UK deals representing over $10 billion of deal value.
Beyond the deal flow, however, Aon’s approach remained responsive to client priorities and focused on innovating and developing solutions that improve client access to insurance capital, particularly as deal execution challenges have increased.
We have continued to focus on client value post-deal, publishing our fifth annual transaction solutions global claims study in Q2 2024, which reported that Aon has secured more than $1.4 billion in paid claims for clients globally over the last decade. The study identified common links in warranty breach vs paid claims in both the US and EMEA as well as a ‘feedback loop’ to help clients consider due diligence strategy for their next M&A deal based on warranty ‘hot spots’.
LIVA
LIVA was founded in 2018 by three individuals and has since grown the team and its offering to become a market leading M&A and contingent risk insurance broker advising on risk solutions such as W&I, tax, contingent, title, environmental and intellectual property insurance.
Headquartered in London, and with offices in Berlin and Warsaw, LIVA primarily services domestic and international M&A transactions. LIVA works with leading private equity, infrastructure and real estate funds on the investor side and blue chips, unicorns, startups and family-owned businesses on the corporate side.
In 2024, LIVA completed its second investment round with Ecclesia Group from Germany. Ecclesia Group is one of the largest insurance brokers in Europe and LIVA now offers comprehensive business insurance solutions from transactional and contingent risk solutions to re-insurance and credit risk capital solutions, in addition to its primary business of M&A insurance.
Lockton
Notwithstanding ongoing challenges in the dealmaking environment, Lockton’s Transactional Risks has team continued to support private equity investors across a range of sectors and deal sizes, helping dealmakers to minimise their risks and unlock value by placing over 140 policies in EMEA.
Lockton is proud to support the private equity community across the UK, with the largest presence outside London of any major broker. We have also recently hired specialist senior brokers focusing on the secondaries market and intellectual property risks. Alongside our dedicated insurance DD practice, specialist in-house claims function and ability to support private equity clients across all other insurance lines, we believe this now gives us the broadest offering of any broker in the market.
We remain committed to fostering relationships within the wider PE community, hosting a large number of networking events, wellbeing classes and fitness events in London, Manchester and Bristol, with a particular focus on engaging with, and supporting, women in the industry. Our quarterly “Women in PE” breakfasts go from strength to strength, regularly attracting over 100 attendees from a range of funds, law firms and other service providers.
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To find out who won, book a table at the Mergermarket British Private Equity Awards on 01 October 2024, by contacting Chris Coe.