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The Risk Neither Side Will Hold.

Every transaction has a risk that stops it — one exposure neither buyer nor seller will retain, usually because no one can price it. Structuring the transfer of that risk is what we do. These are a few of the places we've done it.

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Insurance as Enabler

A well-built insurance structure isn't protection. It's permission.

Some risks aren't insured because they're uninsurable — they're uninsured because they've been mislabeled as ordinary business risk and left with whichever party couldn't push them away. Using our risk-deconstruction technique, we build non-traditional structures for exactly these exposures: the ones that, in the middle of a transaction, quietly become deal-breakers. Our structures remove them — strengthening one party's negotiating position, or simply letting a transaction that had stalled move forward.

The examples below share nothing in common except that principle. That's the point.

Consumer Lending 01

Student Loan Debt Cancellation

When a student borrower dies or becomes permanently disabled, a lender faces the distasteful task of pursuing the debt from the borrower's estate or a co-signing parent. We co-developed, with a leading insurer, Debt Cancellation coverage that indemnifies the lender for the outstanding balance plus accrued interest — protection comparable to what federally backed loan programs offer, extended to private and state lenders.

The coverage can be built into every loan as a base feature or offered electively, at modest cost to lender or borrower. Over a twenty-year repayment period, on a population of 100,000 borrowers, it would spare nearly 2,000 families a collection call at the worst possible moment.

Real Estate Finance 02

Reverse Mortgage Coverage

Federally insured reverse mortgages (HECM) cap the amount a senior can borrow — leaving a substantial set of homeowners who could responsibly borrow more without a route to do so, and giving no credit for impaired health that would justify a higher advance.

We developed coverage that lets lenders offer non-HECM programs above the federal limit — for homes well in excess of it — and introduce a short-form medical underwrite to raise the loan-to-value available to homeowners. Our program expands the non-HECM market in scale, scope, and risk.

How We Approach Novel Risk 03

Carbon Credit Delivery Coverage

When project developers generate carbon credits and sell them forward to buyers who need them for compliance, a chain of risks sits between the contract and delivery: whether the technology performs, whether a counterparty stays solvent, whether a government intervenes, whether the buyer is left buying replacements at a higher spot price. We designed a program — with a leading insurer — that lets both purchasers and investors insure the monetary loss from any of those exposures, structured with the flexibility a bespoke risk requires: tailored policy forms, significant capacity, multi-year terms.

It's included here less as a product than as a demonstration: when a genuinely new market throws up a genuinely new risk, this is how we take it apart and build the transfer.

What Connects Them

Different markets. Different risks. One method.

Consumer debt, home equity, carbon markets — no two of these share a risk profile, a counterparty, or a regulatory frame. What they share is a structure: a risk that stalled a transaction, deconstructed into something a rated carrier would underwrite, and transferred so the deal could proceed. When you have a risk that doesn't fit a category, that's exactly when it's worth a conversation.

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