In recent years, global private equity firms have emerged as a significant force in the world of high finance. With buy-in from the high-net-worth individuals and funds they enlist in various ventures, they've made successful moves to take control of trillions in assets under management. Some project private equity holdings to reach $5 trillion or higher by 2025.
In a highly competitive business world, private equity firms and public and private companies are looking for every growth opportunity they can possibly pursue. This includes acquiring other companies, merging with actual or potential competitors, or divesting assets that no longer deliver value. These courses of action have major potential for revenue generation — and in some cases are essential for survival.
Mergers, acquisitions, and divestments are among the riskiest and most complex business transactions. Many often fail because market conditions change, deals are never closed, or businesses encounter insurmountable difficulties afterwards. Private equity firms face an additional risk – the institutional shielding of a firm may not always insulate partners from the financial consequences of ill-advised investment decisions.
Our global private equity, mergers, and acquisitions team has more than 25 years’ experience providing insights to evaluate, facilitate, and close cross-border and domestic transactions, while managing buy- and sell-side risks. We can help buyers differentiate their bids and sellers exit with minimal warranty exposure.
Our specialists are driven to solving your insurance and risk management challenges by understanding, quantifying, and mitigating risk throughout the investment life cycle. From pre-acquisition, transaction, and integration solutions, to portfolio servicing and post-acquisition transactions, we can help you enhance deal value, improve valuation outcomes, and achieve portfolio operational excellence.
In Asia, protecting that deal value increasingly depends on what happens after completion: Marsh clients in the region received more than US$80 million in transactional risk claims payouts in 2025 as claims notifications doubled year on year.
Our solutions
Marsh Asia’s transactional risk specialists placed insurance on a record 207 M&A deals across the region in 2025. With local teams in Greater China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia, we help buyers and sellers close deals with confidence through these solutions.
1) Warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance, also known as representations and warranties insurance, which:
- Protects buyers and sellers against losses from breaches of, or claims under, the insurable warranties and indemnities in a sale and purchase or other acquisition terms that were unknown at signing and/or completion.
- Enables sellers to exit more cleanly without proceeds being tied up in escrow or holdbacks.
- Allows buyers to have access to insurance cover above the seller’s agreed liability limit, for up to (usually) three years on general business matters, and seven years on tax, title and fundamental matters, such as a party’s authority to enter the transaction.
2) Tax, title and contingent liability insurance which transfers specific tax, title or other legal risks already identified in due diligence or otherwise known to the parties, such as an uncertain tax position, potential share or real estate title defects, or latent contractual, regulatory or litigation exposures to an insurer. This reduces the need for price adjustments, escrows or specific indemnities, and helps keep transactions on track.
Contact a Marsh Asia representative for a non-obligatory discussion today.
