What You Need to Know About the Impact of COVID-19 on Mergers & Acquisition
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Please join us for this webinar where you will hear from seasoned M&A professionals as they discuss the current state of the market and the outlook for the remainder of 2020. You will learn how representations & warranties insurance policies are responding in this highly volatile environment and learn some best practices that can be used going forward. We’ll explore some non-traditional policies and solutions for distressed transactions, such as tax insurance, fraudulent conveyance insurance and litigation insurance, that could see increases in popularity over this time. To wrap up, our speakers will discuss due diligence and property and casualty insurance practices that should be considered in this environment.
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Finding Hidden Value: Uncovering Opportunity with Distressed Transactions
9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM GMT
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Challenging times can present opportunities for those professionals looking in the right places with the right valuation and risk controls in place. In this session, our speakers will examine how businesses can leverage insurance capital to secure distressed transactions and unlock funds. This session will include an overview of the distressed market and the use of representations and warranties insurance to enhance asset values that no longer need to be purchased on an “as is, where is” basis. We will also look at how reserves can be reduced for pending litigation, tax obligations, or other contingencies to enhance returns. Further, we will demonstrate how insurance instruments can help you through the lifecycle of an insolvency procedure, including providing certainty for the impact of a potential revocation right of an insolvency administrator in the case of a pre-insolvency transaction, securing a “prepack” solution in the case of a business sale within a self-administration in the insolvency procedure and, how synthetic warranties agreed with the insurer can minimize deductions for risks in comparison to an “as is, where is” transaction.
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Strengthening Working Capital and Unlocking Cash by Leveraging Insurance Capital.
9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM GMT
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In this highly volatile environment, access to credit is becoming increasingly challenging and expensive as both credit insurers and traditional lenders become more risk averse. On one side, credit insurance which enables access to critical immediate working capital is restricting in terms of capacity and coverage. On the other side, traditional credit lines require significant collateral. Both situations put pressure on a businesses’ cash flow and hurt their ability to manage capital effectively. In this webinar, we will look at the current credit and credit insurance landscape. Our speakers will discuss strategies on how to engage in discussions with the market to reduce credit sanctions imposed by suppliers, unlocking cash via alternative types of structured credit, such as surety bonds and non-payment insurance which can be an attractive alternative to bank capital. How insurance backed receivables finance and supply chain finance can shorten cash conversion cycles. External experts from structure working capital providers will share their view on the market and the current situation within this banking sector.
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Unlocking Liquidity: Tax Planning and Tax Exposure Mitigation for an Unpredictable World
9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM GMT
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As companies struggle to boost shareholder value and deliver growth in this volatile economic environment, senior corporate finance and tax professionals are forced to navigate complex tax risks. Contingent tax liabilities can require companies to post reserves or at a minimum shoulder the risk of an adverse tax ruling, hindering liquidity and access to much-need cash. In a deal context, traditional options can result in long-term indemnifications and escrows which is exacerbated in distressed deals. In response to these traditional and limited approaches, risk-transfer insurance has emerged as an alternative capital management tool that can be used to deliver highly customized solutions that lower costs, increase margins, and take risk off the balance sheet as a critical part of clients’ corporate and capital strategies. In this session, our speakers will discuss how insurance is being used to disrupt the traditional approach to capital management, increase liquidity and improve bottom line results for businesses and dealmakers. They will also discuss how tax insurance can be used to protect an escrow to free up trapped cash and allow it to be used as collateral against a loan.
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Unlocking Liquidity: Bringing Certainty to Pending Litigation and Judgement Preservation​
9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM GMT
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Critical capital can often be locked up in the face of pending litigation or even by a favorable judgement that is at risk of being overturned. In an economy like the current one, accessing this capital is more important than ever. This webinar will provide an overview of litigation landscape and examine how insurance capital can be leveraged to unlock much needed cash. Our speakers will review how insurance can bring certainty to pending litigation, ring fencing potentially catastrophic adverse judgements or allow businesses to lock in a favorable judgement without fear of losing value if overturned. We will also discuss how insurance policies can be used as collateral against a loan. Listeners will leave with a better understanding about how insurance is being used as alternative collateral to improve business outcomes.
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Unlocking Liquidity: Leveraging your Intangible Assets to Increase Liquidity​
9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM GMT
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Right now, businesses everywhere are cutting expenses to preserve cash, looking for capital to enhance liquidity, divesting non-core assets, and moving to protect their balance sheet in the hope of a stronger future. Intangible assets can play a critical role in addressing these objectives. Please join us for this webinar, where you will hear from leading experts on intellectual property as an asset class as they discuss how intellectual property assets perform in economic recessions, analytic approaches to liberating cash from the assets, intellectual property-heavy divestitures, and innovative new intellectual property-backed debt financing solutions.
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