LONDON:
Aon plc a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, today announces the formation of its EMEA M&A and Transaction Solutions Advisory Board.
The new advisory board will support the growth and development of Aon’s M&A practice across the UK and EMEA, as it continues to expand its client offerings to include solutions for intellectual property, cyber security and digital performance, retirement, benefits, talent and compensation, structured credit, tax and litigation risks, ESG and more.
In a highly volatile, competitive and constantly evolving landscape, corporate clients considering M&A transactions, and financial sponsors such as private equity funds, face a multitude of challenges as they assess and articulate the enterprise value of deals and address transaction risks in the most capital efficient and economic manner.
Aon’s M&A and Transaction Solutions team is ideally positioned to draw on the capabilities of the wider Aon organisation to deliver clients a broader-based and differentiated value proposition across these areas.
Aon’s recent whitepaper, Helping Clients Navigate an Increasingly Complex World, sets out how the firm is using innovation to respond to key client needs, including rethinking access to capital.
The advisory board will provide counsel to Aon’s clients and its internal team as it continues to expand beyond its current areas of expertise, which include transaction solutions such as Warranty and Indemnity insurance (W&I), tax insurance and risk and insurance due diligence, into areas such as cyber and intellectual property (IP).
Over the past two years, Aon’s global cyber M&A solutions team has developed innovative platforms and frameworks that have supported more than 250 due diligence and portfolio assessments for several leading investment firms, and now comprises a team of nearly 40 industry experts.
In 2020, Aon launched its IP Capital Market Solution, a proprietary IP valuation tool that enables high-growth businesses to raise capital via secure IP-backed debt structures and avoid the need for equity dilution. Aon's IP solutions, part of Aon's New Ventures Group (NVG), is a global leader in assessing and valuing IP assets, leveraging a proprietary, industry-defining IP analytics platform.