All the key players in the European M&A insurance market in one place: insurance broker Aon Risk Solutions and law firm Dentons hosted the M&A Insurance Summit at the Literaturhaus in Munich on May 10. At the all-day event, participants learned more about how to protect mergers and acquisitions with insurance solutions. Guests included lawyers, insurers, M&A advisors, financial investors and representatives of companies that have already used insurance solutions in transactions or were interested in them for current reasons. In his introductory speech, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Lucks (Chairman of the German Mergers & Acquisitions Association) gave a well-founded overview of global M&A trends and discussed current developments in cross-border M&A between China and Germany. Robert Engels (Head of M&A at Aon Risk Solutions in Germany) and Igsaan Varachia (Partner at Dentons) illustrated how much the use of insurance solutions in M&A transactions has increased in the German market in recent years. For financial investors, they are used in almost every sales transaction. This trend and the associated market dynamics on the supply and demand side were a recurring theme throughout the event, which was characterized by themed panels and specialist presentations. Due to the excellent response from guests, the M&A Insurance Summit is to be held annually in future.
