FORUM ON EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY M&A Sponsorship

Aon M&A and Transaction Solutions supports corporate, private equity and other financial investor clients by providing advice and structuring risk-transfer solutions to secure and enhance event-driven, growth capital and portfolio opportunities.  

With over 160 colleagues across EMEA, our team’s collective expertise is drawn from a range of professional backgrounds, including private equity, investment banking & finance, legal, consulting and risk. 

Leveraging the scale of Aon as a global firm, this breadth of experience helps us guide clients to identify, analyse and implement value-creation opportunities at all stages of the deal, fund or business life-cycle by offering a differentiated combination of specialist advisory services (across cyber, tech & IP, human capital, climate change and risk) and risk transfer capabilities (W&I, tax and contingent insurance). 

We support clients on their growth journey - from private fund raising or initial public offering to restructuring, capital optimisation, M&A and carve-outs. Our focus is to provide deep insights, surface hidden value and reduce uncertainty to improve business performance and returns, while optimising client access to risk capital through innovation.

Recent deal highlights include:

• structuring an innovative solution for CVC on the extension of its partnership with Multiversity Group, one of the largest secondaries transactions to date in Europe
• developing a novel solution for Mars on its £534mn takeover of Hotel Chocolat
• acting on the CHF15bn IPO of Galderma, the EUR14bn IPO of CVC and the listing migration of Flutter to NYSE

In 2023, Aon’s M&A team in EMEA worked on approximately 1,000 advisory opportunities and placed an aggregate US$14.2bn of M&A/event-driven insurance capital for its clients.

We maintain a keen focus on value protection post-deal as well, with Aon’s claims specialists helping clients to secure more than $1.4bn in paid W&I and other event-driven insurance claims globally over the last 10 years.

A selection of our recent thought leadership:

• Aon M&A Capabilities
• Aon White Paper on Financial Sponsor Portfolio Value Creation
• Aon Transaction Solutions Global Claims Study 2024

Our client-centric approach is augmented by counsel and support from the Aon M&A and Transaction Solutions Global Advisory Board, comprised of senior members from the private equity, investment banking, legal and consulting industries to help us provide best-in-class service and drive innovation.