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Your Risk. Our DNA.

We are your risk consultant and insurance broker specializing in the complex challenges of gamechangers.

"As an in-house expert for risk management and insurance issues, the requirements of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board are complex. As a former risk and insurance manager at DAX40 companies, I know them well."

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We let our work and our clients speak for us.

How we help you

Insurance Broking for Gamechangers

Risk Partners is a risk consultant and insurance broker. We specialize in
insurance coverage for companies and industries,
that are changing our everyday lives (game changers) and whose risks we understand in detail.

Road to IPO / Dual/Triple Track

Providing legal protection for IPOs, capital market liability, and M&A transactions

Are you planning an initial public offering in Europe or the U.S.? Are you also considering a sale to a private equity firm or a strategic buyer? Engage our expertise in the “Insurance” stream early on—ideally 24 months in advance—so that we can position you correctly from the outset in terms of underwriting (e.g., with our innovative Risk Partner IPO Flip-D&O Insurance or our Pre-IPO Readiness Check) as well as provide tailored M&A insurance. Furthermore, this allows us to build trust for you in the insurance market and establish a smooth collaboration between your M&A/IPO project team and your Risk Partner Deal Team.  

We advise supervisory boards and executive boards in collaboration with our network of attorneys to help them avoid liability pitfalls during the IPO process and professionally mitigate risks. In addition, we train project teams regarding insurance coverage for potential conflicts of interest (e.g., with underwriters; SPA negotiations) and possible measures during the negotiation of the underwriting agreement or SPAs. Expert dual/triple-track support from a single source.  

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Your experienced team of experts for "gamechanging moments"

Risk Partners exists to provide tailored protection for gamechangers with complex risk profiles from the very beginning. 

Our services

Risk management
from A-Z

At Risk Partners, we are not only consultants in risk transfer, but have also worked as risk managers ourselves. Our approach is to understand and evaluate risk situations and then develop a joint strategy. Always taking your risk appetite into account. Insurance is only part of the solution, as is our advice.

  • "IPO readiness check" in the run-up to the IPO: coaching for the management board and supervisory board on D&O and prospectus liability (POSI), as well as compliance coaching together with our partner law firms
  • Individual advice following analysis of your planned market cap, stock exchange location and shareholder structure (pre- and post-IPO)
  • Understanding the risks from the transaction and reviewing the modification of the D&O cover
  • Extension of prospectus liability as a tailored project policy for comprehensive protection of the entire liability period of up to twelve years
  • Is your D&O "ready to be public"? Are securities trading claims adequately covered? Are you adequately protected against shareholder lawsuits? (US class actions also for ADR Level I-III, KapMuG)
  • Optimize the sums insured and benefit modules of D&O programs, also with a view to meaningfulness and insurance premium costs
  • Best insurance cover through comprehensive governance. Ask about our software-supported compliance suite. We are also happy to provide preparatory advice for "IPO candidates" who want to reduce their compliance, governance and board risk
  • Protection against LP or investor claims through our D&O / E&O concepts
  • "Capital call" fraud protection through tailor-made crime / cyber concepts
  • Investment protection through market-leading risk managementsolutions for your portfolio companies (day 1 to IPO)
  • Sparring with your law firm on insurance clauses (biometrics, financial loss risk, product liability or IP clauses) in the term sheet (in particular also for joint investments with US VCs and their clauses)
  • Especially for growth companies from Series B to E (to IPO)
  • D&O Growth concept including a free pre-IPO readiness check and our Risk Partners D&O solution with IPO flip for anyone planning an IPO 
  • Manager liability and personal liability of industry-specific role profiles (protection for your Health & Safety Officer, Regulatory & Clinical Affairs, Quality Officer, etc.)
  • Patent protection (IP liability)
  • Cyber insurance for sensitive data and liability risks (international studies)
  • Special concepts for the validation of volunteer studies (Phase I-IV)
  • Special public and product liability (incl. AMG and MPG)
  • Cyber / tech E&O concepts for AI products: Clarifying and securing liability issues (also for pharma and biotech)
  • ESG protection as part of the D&O insurance.
  • "High protection" for medical cannabis companies (from D&O and capital market protection to greenhouse and crop failure cover)
  • Successfully marketing of complex cyber risks on the international insurance markets - especially with exposed business models and high sums insured in demand
  • Our expertise as experienced risk managers for initial risk assessment or as longer-term or temporary in-house experts

"Transferring complex risks for our clients requires specialist expertise and innovative solutions. We therefore have a clear focus on sectors and risks that we really understand."

We are partners throughout the entire life cycle of a company

Our added value as Risk Partners

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Specialization

We are completely focused on our specialist topics and strive to be the qualitative market leader in these areas. As a client of Risk Partners, you will speak with (industry) experts who are continuously training and closely following their industries.

Worldwide

Not only do we use English as our second corporate language, we are also regularly in London to develop innovative solutions. In addition, we are also at your side internationally with our network.

From the first notary appointment to the IPO

We exist to provide founders with holistic and highly specialized support from foundation to IPO. This unique positioning enables us to set up clients correctly at an early stage, e.g. through our D&O flip insurance. An innovation in the market!

Reliability

We are an owner-managed company with a very healthy age structure, which guarantees you stable support. Our unique company culture positions us as a contrast to many corporations in the brokerage market. We rely on a personal approach combined with leading specialist knowledge to ensure that your needs are optimally met.

Blog / News

Capital requirements for (fully regulated) AIFMs

What are the capital requirements for an asset management company? Together with experts Johannes Kiefer (Director of Risk & Compliance at Landsiedel & Partner) and Henry Franz (Managing Director of Layline.tax), we were able to compile our complementary expertise on capital requirements, ranging from registered asset management companies to fully licensed ones. In this issue of VC Magazine, we share how E&O insurance, among other things, can provide added value. In addition to our article available below, please also see the

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Risk Partners is advising Terranor Group AG on its NASDAQ (Sweden) IPO

From Road Builder to IPO Candidate: How Terranor Group AB Conquered Nasdaq First North. It was a day that marked a new chapter not only for Terranor Group AB but for the entire Nordic infrastructure sector: On June 19, 2025, the Swedish company celebrated its successful initial public offering on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market in Stockholm. Risk Partners as IPO Advisor Because while Terranor Group’s shares

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New: Risk Partners POSI Insurance for MiCAR White Paper

MiCAR Compliance? We Cover the Risk! The MiCAR Regulation (EU 2023/1114) exposes crypto-asset service providers and whitepaper authors to significant liability risks. Incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading information in white papers can have significant consequences for Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASP) and authors—ranging from regulatory sanctions to civil claims. Our solution: Risk Partners Tech POSI MiCAR Whitepaper Protect 2025 The creation and publication of white papers under MiCAR involves complex liability pitfalls: In addition to

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"Digital Operational Resilience Act" (DORA regulation) from the perspective of venture capital and private equity funds

DORA regulation applies from January 2025. Significance for our private equity and venture capital clients The somewhat unwieldy name "Digital Operational Resilience Act" (DORA for short) has a very serious background and is fundamentally to be welcomed. Because when we evaluate our claims in the context of cybercrime, PE and VC funds and their KVGs are those with the highest frequency of claims. This can be safely assumed,

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