Our European Private Equity and M&A team celebrates a decade of supporting the private equity community, having advised on the acquisition and sale of more than 1500 businesses. Pioneering risk and insurance advice for the M&A community, the team has been at the forefront of developing solutions that ensure the long-term success of a transaction. To mark its 10th year anniversary, the team has been recognized as “Risk adviser of the year” and “Due Diligence specialist of the year” by the industry.

• We pioneered the role of risk and insurance in the private equity space and remain at the forefront of this evolving market.
• We help dealmakers to understand the financial impact of insurance on a deal. Our 70 strong dedicated team has advised on over 500 European deals in 2006.
• We structured the first ever litigation buy-out solution in Europe, allowing a private equity firm to exit a previously "unsaleable" asset. This was a landmark deal and has since been replicated across the Continent.
• We structured a ground-breaking insurance solution, which enabled a private equity fund to acquire a business in an emerging market with confidence - despite the target's warranties falling away at completion.
• We developed insurance cover specifically for individual private equity professionals, protecting them in their dual roles as iinvestors and directors.
• From portfolio title insurance to tax opinion insurance, we help private equity firms navigate the insurance markets to develop solutions across a broad spectrum of issues, giving them added confidence around the investments they make.
• We are creating portfolio insurance programmes, enabling private equity owners to help reduce their portfolio companies' cost of risk.
• We are passionate about exploring and developing how the concept of risk impacts the private equity industry. Our research study was the first to address private equity management liability.
• The breadth of our expertise across industries, geographies and risks supports our private equity clients as they expand into new markets such as infrastructure.
• In our 10th year advising private equity, we've been recognised as "Risk adviser of the year" and "Due diligence adviser of the year" by the industry.
• “Risk adviser of the year" awarded by Financial News and "Due diligence adviser of the year" awarded by Unquote.

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