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Private Equity Investment Services and Executive Liability

A directors & officers liability policy to address private equity firms’ unique risks.

Private equity firms provide a vital, specialized service to the business world. This coverage is the perfect insurance solution for their needs.

Here’s why our coverage is the policy of choice:

  • Automatic ODL double excess coverage for privately held portfolio companies
  • Broad definition of insured person — including general partners
  • Loss includes damages and defense expenses
  • Broad definition of entity — including subsidiaries and private equity funds
  • Can be written in conjunction with other financial products — including employment practices liability and fiduciary liability

Our target market includes private equity firms:

  • With up to $3 billion in committed capital
  • Investing in privately held portfolio companies

RLI EPG products feature:

  • Available in excess coverage (Pure follow-form coverage sits over all coverages.)
  • Automatic merger and acquisition and automatic run-off coverages
  • Broad punitive damage and spousal liability coverages
  • Zero retention for investigative costs coverage for favorably resolved claims
  • A three-year discovery quote guaranteed
  • Investigations are included in the definition of claim
  • “Pay on behalf of” language
  • Claim notice “as soon as practicable”
  • Non-cancellability (except for non-payment of premium)
  • Worldwide coverage
  • Crime/KRE: Only to insureds who also purchase other EPG coverages — one or a combination of D&O, fiduciary and EPL.

RLI offers limits of up to $25 million on all our product lines. RLI is rated “A+” (Superior) by A.M. Best, “A+” by Standard & Poor’s, and has appeared in the Ward’s 50, a respected benchmark group of the insurance industry’s top performing companies, every year of the list’s existence.