A short insights on the recent trends and happenings in the Asia M&A insurance market.

W&I insurance enables parties to an M&A transaction to pro-actively manage transaction risks. This brings with it a number of benefits, including a clean exit for sellers, peace of mind for buyers and facilitation of the negotiation process (thereby enhancing deal certainty).

并购保证保险使并购交易各方能够积极管理交易风险。并购保证保险具有很多战略用途，包括卖方的全身而退，使得买方更加安心，以及促进谈判过程（从而提高交易的确定性）。

併購保證保險可以促使交易雙方積極主動地管理交易風險，其帶來眾多益處，包括賣方得以乾淨退出，買方得以加速併購合約談判過程(更能夠促成交易)。

表明保証保険（Warranty & Indemnity Insurance）は、取引に関するリスクの能動的なマネジメントすることが可能です。表明保証保険は、売主にとってのクリーン　イグジット、 買主にとっての安心感、そして交渉過程への促進（従っ て、M&A取引の確定性の向上）を含め、様々な戦略的有用性を持ちます。

Aon Transaction Solutions team is delighted to announce the launch of its new global Private Equity Secondaries Solutions. Aon helps leverage insurance capital to de-risk secondary funds, provide greater liquidity to investors and improve your fund’s balance sheet risks by maximizing sale proceeds at closing and reducing or eliminating potential clawback exposure and post-closing reserve requirements.

Tax liability insurance seeks to reduce or eliminate the exposure of an identified tax risk, from a successful challenge to the expected tax treatment of a proposed or historic transaction by the local or foreign tax authority, by transferring the tax risk from the taxpayer to an insurer.

Transfer pricing has been a key area of tax authority focus and occasional controversy over the last decade. Because of the subjective nature of transfer pricing positions, the risk of adjustments to taxable income, double taxation, and the potential for interest and penalties can be substantial.