M&A Transactions Insurance: Maximizing Deal Value, Managing Risks, Solving Challenging Negotiation Points

Ms. Harger is a Managing Director in Aon’s Transaction Solutions team and co-leader of Aon’s Tax Insurance group in North America. Prior to joining Aon in 2016, she worked as a tax consultant in several Big Four accounting firms, most recently in Ernst & Young’s Transaction Tax group. Ms. Harger began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising financial services clients and focusing on international tax issues in M&A transactions. She has advised on both private equity and strategic corporate deals from the buy-side and sell-side. Ms. Harger has experience in a broad range of federal and international tax advisory and across all stages of the transaction life cycle, including strategic analysis of opportunities, development of financial and tax structures, due diligence and negotiation of sale and purchase agreements, and post transaction implementation. Ms. Harger is admitted to the bar in New York and was recognized as a Power Broker in M&A and Rising Star in 2019, 2020 and 2021 by Risk & Insurance®.

Mr. Seaman is a commercial litigator and trial lawyer with more than 38 years of experience. He is widely regarded as one of the leading attorneys in the United States representing insurers and reinsurers in property and casualty matters. Mr. Seaman is known for employing his deep knowledge of the law and insurance industry, strategic thinking, and honed trial and appellate advocacy to produce creative solutions and outstanding results for clients. Clients regularly turn to Mr. Seaman and his team for counsel and representation in challenging and high-stakes insurance and business matters. He has a long track record of successfully representing companies before trial courts, appellate courts, and arbitration panels across the country in a variety of cases and matters involving general liability coverage (primary, umbrella, and excess), professional liability coverage, directors and officers liability insurance, first-party property coverage, bad faith and extra-contractual matters, fee disputes, and facultative and treaty reinsurance contracts. Mr. Seaman also advises and represents companies on cyber, privacy, data breach, IoT, nanotechnology, gig economy, viruses and pandemics, representations and warranties, transactional insurance, social unrest, ESG, climate change, and other emerging issues, as well as a wide-range of case-specific and portfolio issues. He also has handled a variety of challenging international, professional liability, health/life science, director and officer liability, tort and product liability, and business and commercial cases. Mr. Seaman is co-author of the two volume treatise, Allocation of Losses in Complex Insurance Coverage Claims (13th Ed. 2025). 

Ms. Sherburne works with clients to close transformational deals. She focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and securities. Ms. Sherburne also has significant experience with M&A representation and warranty insurance, a product that is being used with greater frequency in the M&A market. Her transaction experience includes: representing strategic public and private clients in acquisition and disposition transactions in industries such as retail, medical devices, software/technology, health care, professional sports, financial services, restaurants, manufacturing and distribution, wholesale, transportation, and recreational vehicles; representing large family-owned businesses in exit transactions; representing private equity firms in transactions involving purchases and sales of portfolio companies; representing management investors in rollover investments; and representing privately held businesses in connection with reorganization transactions, among others.