Insurance for Private Equity Portfolios
What is private equity insurance?
Private equity insurance is both commercial insurance products and risk mitigation and claims services customized to the needs of the private equity firm’s portfolio of companies. These products and services are built to protect against a wide range of risk exposures that can lead to litigation and/or losses. Although private equity firms can gain substantial benefits when acquiring portfolio companies, those acquisitions sometimes come with potential risks, such as lawsuits, regulatory challenges, reputational damages and vulnerability to a changing investment climate.
Insurance solutions designed and delivered with the speed, accuracy and response that fast-moving private equity deals demand can help private equity firms mitigate potential risks, allowing them to focus on the complexities of managing their diverse business operations.
Why Zurich for private equity insurance?
Zurich’s dedicated and experienced team of Private Equity insurance specialists understands the business and the need for speed that effective deals require. Private equity firms today operate in an increasingly complex and competitive marketplace. Executing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in this environment means dealing with a multitude of economic, legal and regulatory challenges while moving with the speed and agility that such deals demand. Zurich has the necessary efficiency and expertise to deliver on these complex risks and emerging issues to help mitigate their potential impacts on your firm and portfolio companies.
Zurich's Private Equity professionals provide access to a comprehensive suite of insurance solutions encompassing property, casualty, liability and captive products and services. Zurich can deliver solutions and services to the entire portfolio of companies — protecting capital assets with the continuity and breadth of a unified risk management strategy that covers all the bases.
Strong international capabilities
With one of the largest global networks, serving customers in 210+ countries and territories, Zurich can issue locally admitted policies, manage claims and service captives as you expand globally.
Flexible, customized solutions
The depth and breadth of our insurance and related risk-transfer solutions can be tailored to the needs of a private equity firm’s entire portfolio of companies.
Financial strength
Financial strength matters in the private equity business, and in ours too. Zurich’s current industry ratings include A+/Stable (A.M. Best), AA-/Stable (Standard & Poor’s) and Aa3 (Moody’s).*
Insurance and risk management
Zurich offers broad options of insurance for a private equity firm’s portfolio of businesses, whether purchased or acquired through mergers or acquisitions. Zurich has you covered.
- Property – Coverage for buildings, equipment, other assets and business income if interrupted by a covered loss
- General Liability – Broad, third-party liability coverage for a wide range of needs
- Workers' Compensation – Coverage designed to help get employees back on the job quickly and safely, with cost-reduction for businesses
- Fleet Coverage – Commercial auto coverage to protect against third-party liability and property damage
- Cyber Insurance – Cyber coverage and risk assessments built to help protect businesses against this evolving risk
- International Capabilities – Coverage for mid-size businesses doing business abroad or planning to leverage opportunities beyond their national borders
Related industry and insurance
Zurich has a broad appetite for different industries and has built expertise around many. Below are just some examples of the breadth of knowledge and expertise that Zurich has built around an industry-focus approach, meeting the needs of companies that have complex risks and require insurance products and solutions that will meet their specific needs.
Bill Fahy
Zurich North America
Office: (214) 866-1011
Mobile: (347) 407-1765
william.fahy@zurichna.com
Trends in Commercial Insurance
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