The efficiency of RWI underwriters, along with skilled advice from brokers and their third-party advisors, allowed the RWI market to facilitate thousands of transactions during the pandemic M&A boom of 2020 – 2022. (Credit: freshidea/Adobe Stock)
In today's dynamic business landscape, mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions have become commonplace strategies for growth and expansion. Representations and Warranties Insurance (RWI) plays a vital role in facilitating corporate transactions by mitigating unknown risks and enhancing deal certainty for buyers and sellers.
What was once a cumbersome and lengthy process, underwriting an RWI policy is now more streamlined and efficient because the broker, the buyer (typically the insured under an RWI policy), the buyer's advisors (i.e., law firms, financial advisors) and the underwriter better understand the scope of diligence necessary to verify the representation and warranties in acquisition agreement. Improved underwriting has resulted in better outcomes for the insured both with respect to speed of execution and breadth of transactions insured.
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