Transactional Risk Broker - M&A

Location: Sydney (Melbourne considered)

About the Role:

Marsh is seeking highly skilled candidates to join our Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions (PEMA) Practice. As a Transactional Risk Broker, you will play a pivotal role in supporting clients through M&A insurance solutions, with a focus on warranties and indemnities (W&I) insurance. This commercially focused position offers the opportunity to lead impactful M&A projects within a supportive and collaborative team environment.

Our Transactional Risk practice within PEMA boasts a strong track record of supporting clients through interesting and complex M&A transactions worldwide, delivering customized M&A insurance solutions for high-profile deals. At Marsh, we value collaboration, professional growth and continued learning. Join our dynamic team and play a key role in the delivering M&A insurance solutions across Australia and New Zealand.

Your Roles and Responsibilities:

Provide strategic advice on insurance solutions for M&A transactions.Manage and take ownership of the policy and coverage negotiation process to develop enhanced and bespoke policy wordings to ensure the client’s commercial objectives are achieved. Develop and maintain strong professional relationships with the local M&A community.Act as the primary contact for clients throughout the M&A process, ensuring clear communication and exceptional service.Take on a critical project management role to ensure successful outcomes.Mentor and guide junior brokers, fostering their professional growth.Project Marsh’s principles externally and internally, and be an ambassador for Marsh by creating thought leadership and by hosting/chairing industry events.Manage multiple projects and coordinate various workstreams / advisors to ensure transaction timelines and objectives are met. 

Qualifications:

M&A experience of 4+ years (ideally with a combination of legal and insurance experience).Tertiary qualifications in law, finance, commerce, or a related field.Strong negotiation and communication skills.

What Makes You Stand Out?

Legal M&A experience that adds depth to your expertise.Prior experience with W&I insurance.Proven experience in managing multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is the world’s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow on LinkedIn and X.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Marsh McLennan is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh McLennan colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.