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Same insurance.
Wholesale pricing.

WolfTRI accesses the same RWI market as other retail brokerages — and charges no additional WolfTRI retail broker fee. The firm's only compensation is the carrier commission embedded in the RWI premium. Institutional execution on every M&A placement, middle-market to $2B EV, under an illustrative traditional retail fee model where a separate broker fee is charged in addition to the insurer-paid commission.

Deal types

What we place — and what we decline.

Not every deal is a good RWI candidate. A good broker tells you up front when the economics or structure don't work. We'd rather decline early than run a 45-day process that doesn't close.

Fit

Platform buyouts

Sponsor-led acquisitions of $25M–$2B EV targets with clean QofE and experienced counsel. The canonical RWI placement.

Fit

Corporate carve-outs

Divisional spin-offs where reps are cleaner than at parent-co level. Carriers have appetite; execution turns on TSA and IP scope.

Fit

Strategic acquisitions

Corporate buyers using RWI to replace seller escrow. Increasingly common on competitive auctions where seller demands clean exit.

Fit

Add-ons & roll-ups

$10M+ tuck-ins. Smaller than traditional RWI but now a well-developed market with dedicated carrier appetite.

Fit

Cross-border

US-acquirer-of-non-US-target structures. Requires a broker who knows which carriers write which jurisdictions. WolfTRI's licensed producer has placed coverage across multiple cross-border jurisdictions.

Fit

Take-privates & go-shops

Public-company acquisitions. Limited RWI scope by structure, but still useful for specific reps and tax indemnity.

Decline

Target EV under $10M

Premium floors and minimum retentions make the economics poor. We tell you directly rather than running a polite process.

Decline

Distressed & 363 sales

Carriers have essentially no appetite. Structural alternatives (contingent legal, specific indemnity) may fit — we'll advise.

Decline

No QofE

RWI underwriting requires institutional-quality financial diligence. If the buyer hasn't engaged a QofE firm, we'll pause and guide first.

Policy shape

What a well-placed M&A RWI policy looks like.

The difference between a good RWI policy and a bad one shows up at claim time — but the work is done in underwriting. These are the negotiation points that matter.

01

Broad reps coverage

Coverage scope negotiated to cover the SPA reps presented in underwriting, subject to underwriting, policy terms, exclusions, transaction documents, and diligence. Narrow exclusions; we resist blanket "business reps only" carve-outs.

02

Knowledge scrape

Buyer knowledge limited to deal-team actual knowledge of material breach. Not a constructive-knowledge standard that eats coverage.

03

Materiality scrape

Damages and breach determined without regard to materiality qualifiers — so a "material" qualifier doesn't gate recovery.

04

Clean exclusions

Standard exclusions only: known breaches, NOLs, transfer pricing, actual fraud. We push back on long bespoke exclusion lists that materially narrow recovery.

05

Subrogation waiver

Waiver of subrogation against sellers except for fraud. Without this, RWI becomes a seller-indemnity substitute in name only.

M&A RWI terms

Current market benchmarks.

Q2 2026 indicative market data; figures synthesized from publicly available carrier and broker industry reporting. Individual deal economics vary substantially by industry, size, diligence quality, and competitive dynamics.

2.9%ROL
Median rate on line
0.75%EV
Median retention
10%EV
Typical limit
6yrs
Fundamental coverage
Related products

Structures that travel with M&A RWI.

On roughly 1 in 4 deals, a secondary transactional policy accompanies the primary RWI tower. The most common pairings:

Adjacent

Tax liability insurance

For specific tax positions (NOL usage, transfer pricing, R&D credit, §338(h)(10), partnership audit rules) where buyer wants certainty beyond the indemnity. Priced per-position; frequently bound in parallel with the RWI tower.

$5M–$250M limits3–5% ROL
Adjacent

Contingent legal risk

For known litigation or known issues carved out of RWI. Wraps a specific identified exposure — IP infringement, contract dispute, regulatory matter — with defined resolution path.

$5M–$150M limitsDeal-specific
Adjacent

Environmental wrap

For operating businesses with environmental footprint or real estate. Sits above the RWI environmental sublimit with longer tail (10+ years) and broader covered matters.

$5M–$100M limitsSpecialty pricing

We place institutional-grade RWI at middle-market scale.

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