Representations and Warranties Insurance Adds Time and Complexity to Post-Closing M&A Claims
In the role of post-closing professional shareholder representative, the in-house attorneys and experts at SRS Acquiom experience firsthand the impact of RWI on M&A claims. Updated with new data from 2025, find out more about the effects of RWI on post-closing claims. Key insights in this special report include:
- Indemnification provisions
- Frequency of indemnification claims
- Claim payment times
- Claim resolution times
Michelle Kirkpatrick serves as a Senior Director, Business Development focusing on the Central Region.
Prior to this role, Michelle led SRS Acquiom's Shareholder Advisory team of attorneys, accountants, and tax professionals handling purchase price adjustments, indemnification claims, earnout/milestone disputes, tax matters, and more. With over a decade of experience navigating all manner of post-closing M&A issues, Michelle is passionate about educating deal parties on the shareholder representative role, payment considerations, and other ways to improve the M&A process overall. Michelle shares her expertise in numerous articles, presentations, and panel discussions.
Michelle received her J.D, from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2011, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California, San Diego in 2007. After a 2-year Federal clerkship, she litigated complex employment disputes at a leading global firm before joining SRS Acquiom in 2016.
Kip is a senior director leading the SRS Acquiom thought leadership practice, the mission of which is to share resourceful content built from SRS Acquiom expertise and proprietary data. In addition to facilitating scores of interactive presentations at M&A conferences and law firms, Kip authors a plethora of articles and data studies regularly utilized by the market.
Previously, Kip was a part of the SRS Acquiom Transactional Group, where he collaborated with clients and counsel to negotiate M&A documents including purchase, escrow, payments, and other transactional agreements. Before joining SRS Acquiom, he was an attorney with a Denver-based boutique business law firm working on middle-market M&A deals.
Kip holds J.D. and M.S. (Econometrics) degrees and is a member of the Colorado bar.