Liability buyouts: An update for M&A, bankruptcy, and corporate balance sheets

Learn how to move environmental liabilities off your balance sheet

Many business have environmental cleanup liabilities on their balance sheets, often from past operations or legacy acquisitions. These liabilities can be a significant drag on financial performance and an impediment to operational changes, especially involving M&A (stock & asset deals), managing bankruptcy, and restructuring/re-positioning assets.

The good news is these environmental liabilities can be moved off balance sheet, out of a transaction, or out of bankruptcy using an environmental liability buyout company, thus removing barriers to business needs.

In our recent webcast, we discussed the ins and outs of environmental liability buyouts, including:

• Liabilities and costs that can be transferred
• Mechanics of an environmental liability buyout: process, timing, contracts
• Role of environmental insurance as an enabling tool

Presenters

Mark Hinds
Executive Vice President
Environmental Liability Transfer, Inc.

Jim Vetter
Managing Director
Marsh