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Conventional insurance programmes typically require physical damage as a prerequisite for business interruption coverage and broadly exclude communicable disease impacts. This protection gap has historically forced organisations to retain epidemic-related financial exposures on their balance sheets—a strategy that has resulted in severe capital depletion and, in extreme cases, operational failure.

The unprecedented global disruption of recent years has fundamentally altered risk management perspectives regarding epidemic/pandemic vulnerabilities, revealing the strategic importance of dedicated risk transfer solutions for these previously underaddressed threats.

Intellectual Property Insurance

MNK International delivers sophisticated protection for companies facing intellectual property (IP) risks. Our coverage addresses legal costs associated with pursuing infringement or theft of IP, while also protecting policyholders against claims of IP infringement.

IP infringement exposures extend across patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, domain names, and miscellaneous IP rights. Our modular approach provides flexible third-party coverage tailored to your specific needs.

Our coverage extends to legal fees, expenses and damages (including settlements) incurred in defending proceedings alleging:

  • Infringement of third-party intellectual property through your products, services, or IP licensing
  • Justification for injunctive action through product or service offerings
  • Groundless allegations of infringement made against third parties
  • Threats to your IP rights or ownership
  • Counterclaims to proceedings against other parties

Residual Value Insurance

MNK International provides sophisticated residual value insurance (RVI) and residual value guarantees (RVG) for aircraft, shipping, motor fleets, commercial real estate and other assets. This essential coverage protects against unforeseen loss of asset value by guaranteeing a predetermined future value.

Working closely with clients and partners, we enhance and support financing arrangements for asset-based transactions. RVI provides asset owners and financiers with certainty of declared asset value at pre-determined future dates—an invaluable tool for balancing exposures in volatile markets.

Every enquiry receives individual, case-by-case assessment to ensure future asset values are properly agreed between our clients and underwriters. Policy wordings are meticulously structured to ensure clarity in asset valuation at term conclusion, meeting expectations of all parties. Our solutions are backed exclusively by S&P ‘A’ rated (minimum) global insurance markets and banks.

Warranty & Indemnity Insurance

In mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions, buyers and sellers face potential exposures during negotiations and after completion. Despite thorough disclosure and due diligence, elements of uncertainty remain. MNK International delivers sophisticated warranty and indemnity insurance (also known as transaction liability insurance or representations and warranties insurance in North America) to facilitate transactions with confidence.

Our solutions respond to financial losses arising from breaches of warranties and tax indemnities provided in corporate transactions, particularly M&A deals. Coverage can protect either buyers or sellers, providing back-to-back protection for seller liability under SPAs by responding to buyer claims for warranty breaches or tax indemnity issues.

Strategic applications:

  • Facilitating clean exits for sellers unwilling or unable to provide contractual protections
  • Enhancing auction bids through W&I insurance integration
  • Providing greater liability limits than counterparties can offer
  • Strengthening covenant security and managing recoverability risk
  • Creating alternative recourse avenues where relationships require preservation
  • Releasing committed capital where funds intend to wind up and return proceeds to investors