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Clear roles, written accountability, and continued involvement after binding.

In-house legal teams generally want a defensible process around the RWI placement — one with documented scope, transparent compensation, and a single accountable contact for the questions that surface after closing.

What we coordinate

The RWI workstream, run alongside outside counsel and the deal team.

  • Submission strategy and insurer selection across the wholesale RWI market.
  • Coordination of the underwriting call, diligence-record review, and follow-up questions.
  • Policy negotiation — definitions, retention, exclusions, coverage scope, and conformance to the deal documents.
  • Compensation transparency and disclosure of insurer fees, surplus-lines taxes, and material compensation.
  • Post-binding policy questions and claim-related coordination with the insurer.
A defensible process

Documented roles, written compensation, one principal accountable for the file.

01 · Scope

Scope is written down.

Engagement letters set out the placement scope, the role boundaries between WolfTRI and counsel, the diligence-record assumptions WolfTRI is relying on, and the carve-outs the insurer is being asked to accept.

02 · Compensation

Compensation is on the page.

WolfTRI is paid through the insurer-paid commission already embedded in the premium. The standard RWI placement model does not include a separate WolfTRI retail broker fee. Premium, underwriting fees, surplus-lines taxes, and material compensation are disclosed before binding.

03 · After binding

The same principal stays on the file.

Policy interpretation, schedule updates, and claim notices are handled by the Principal Broker who placed the coverage — not handed to an unfamiliar service desk.

Role boundaries

WolfTRI provides insurance brokerage services only. WolfTRI does not provide legal, tax, accounting, or investment advice; does not interpret the purchase agreement; does not opine on legal sufficiency of disclosure schedules; and does not act as claims administrator. Underwriting, policy terms, coverage, and claim outcomes are determined by the insurer.

WolfTRI also complements rather than replaces the company’s incumbent commercial insurance broker. Existing advisors keep the go-forward property, casualty, cyber, environmental, benefits, and other renewable workstreams.

Evaluating RWI on an active deal?

Send NDA-level parameters and the Principal Broker will follow up with preliminary indications.