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1. The module holds in one sentence. A warranty and indemnity policy does not replace the warranty, it replaces what?
The counterparty: what changes is who pays, not what was promised
A claim against the seller is worth what the seller is worth when it is brought, and what remains reachable of it: escrow, caps and survival periods are three ways of organizing a claim that nothing guarantees will be paid. The policy removes that uncertainty by changing debtor, and it does not touch what was promised. The answer making it widen the warranty describes an effect it does not have on its own, since it insures contractual warranties and not statements it would invent. The one seeing it dispense with the review is the module's most expensive error: what the review did not look at is not covered, the policy prices the examination and does not replace it.
Glossary entry →2. Seller and buyer buy the same contract for two distinct reasons. What are they?
The seller buys a clean exit; the buyer buys the ability to claim without attacking anyone
A fund has a finite life, investors to repay and a distribution timetable: locking a slice of the price for two years delays the fund's closure and makes its return unreadable. That is why the line grew with private equity rather than with industrial disposals, where the seller often stays solvent and present ten years later. On the buyer's side, the point sales presentations skip is that it is not primarily buying money, since escrow already gave it that: in a sale where the management team sells and stays in charge, enforcing the warranties means suing the people who run the asset just bought, and many sound claims are never brought for that reason alone. The answer making money the common motive is the one said in meetings, and it is wrong on both sides at once.
Glossary entry →3. Almost all policies are taken out by the buyer, including where the seller started the process. Which two reasons compound?
A buyer-side policy indemnifies the buyer without it having to establish the seller's liability, and a seller-side policy cannot by construction cover the seller's fraud
The first reason is mechanical: a seller-side policy responds only once the seller has been found liable, which presupposes the very litigation the deal was structured to avoid. The second rests on a principle and not on practice: nobody insures against their own fraudulent conduct. Treating them as a matter of cost or fashion, as another answer suggests, prevents understanding why the structure never reverses, even where the seller pays. The answer invoking the review reports describes a real fact that explains nothing: the seller has its own prepared in an auction, and the policy flips buy-side anyway.
Glossary entry →4. The sale agreement almost always keeps a one euro seller liability. What is that amount for?
To keep the insured object in existence: a warranty behind which nobody stands can be read as boilerplate, and the policy insures contractual warranties
The symbol is not a symbol, and that is the reversal to retain: the insurance bears on warranties given in a contract, so a warranty nobody owes any longer risks no longer being a warranty. One euro costs one euro and keeps the object alive. The answer seeing only a good-faith gesture with no effect is exactly the one given on discovering the clause without knowing its function, and it leads to deleting it for tidiness. The one talking about admissibility moves the question to procedure when it is a matter of contract law.
Glossary entry →5. A due diligence did not examine the target's employment contracts, for want of time. What effect does that have on the policy?
An employment law exclusion: what the review did not look at is not covered
The principle always surprises and it is simple: a diligence exercise that skipped a subject does not produce a more expensive policy, it produces an exclusion. Believing in a premium loading, as another answer suggests, assumes an insurer that would rate ignorance; it does not rate it, it removes it from the perimeter. The answer separating the seller's warranties from the buyer's work is the most tempting because it is logical, and it misses the product's inversion: the insurer does not read the target, it reads the reports, so the buyer's work is exactly what it rules on.
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