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Who Pays For Rep And Warranty Insurance? It is the Buyer in an M&A transaction who pays for the rep and warranty insurance premium most of the time. However, there are various instances when the premium is either shared between Buyer and Seller, or when the Seller picks up the bill.

In most cases, the buyer bore full, or shared with the seller, responsibility for RWI premium payments.

This type of warranty essentially guarantees that you'll get a certain number of miles of use out of your tires before they wear out. If your tires wear out before you reach that number, the manufacturer may give you a pro-rated refund for the difference between the miles promised and the miles delivered.

Common exclusions under RWI policies include fraud (although buyer-side policies will cover seller's fraud), disclosed items or otherwise actually known breaches, fines and penalties, purchase price adjustments, and forward-looking statements. Policies also exclude injunctive, equitable and other non-monetary relief.

Over 2,000 RWI policies bound annually among 20+ RWI providers. RWI premium typically ranges from ~3%?4% of the insured amount (downward trend over the last 1?2 years is resulting in many opportunities pricing below 3%).

Representations and warranties are contractual statements where a seller asserts the truth and accuracy of a condition or circumstance of a business. They help determine the quality, nature, and risks of what is being acquired. If these statements aren't true, the seller may be liable to pay damages to the buyer.

Retention is essentially a deductible?the amount the insured is responsible for paying out of pocket before the insurance policy starts paying out on a claim. A typical retention amount in an RWI policy is 1% of the enterprise value of the transaction.