M&A: R&W insurance product could help ease buy-sell deals

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San Francisco – Insurance products are often viewed as a must-havecomponent of any business deal.Handled correctly, the right kind of insurance also can easecontentious negotiations and help a buy-sell deal go through. “It’s adeal enabling tool,” said Alan Weiss, senior vice president, unit managerat insurance broker Lockton Companies LLP, during a discussion ofinsurance as a part of the mergers and acquisitions process at the recentSIGMA national meeting here.