Capital raise · Insurance Brokerage

Independent Sponsor Capital Partner LPA in Insurance Brokerage

Securities and M&A counsel for independent sponsors drafting insurance brokerage transactions, from LOI to close to the capital markets that open up afterward.

EV range $10M to $150M EV EBITDA $3M to $25M Audience Independent Sponsor
The deal context

Capital Partner LPA on insurance brokerage deals is one of those workstreams that looks routine on a checklist and decides outcomes in practice.

The typical insurance brokerage platform sits at $10M to $150M EV with EBITDA in the $3M to $25M range. The thesis runs on regional retail agency roll-ups. Producer non-competes are unenforceable in too many states to ignore. Plan retention, not litigation.

The moves

How Capital Partner LPA actually gets structured.

  1. Anchor on a 20 percent carry above an 8 percent preferred return, 50/50 catch-up.

  2. Build a one-vote, one-LP majority for any waterfall change.

  3. Define key-person and removal-for-cause provisions narrowly.

  4. Make distributions quarterly, with an annual true-up against the waterfall.

  5. In insurance brokerage, layer in E&O tail insurance priced and bound as part of the Capital Partner LPA workstream.

The common mistake

Reusing a fund LPA template for a deal-by-deal structure. The economics, governance, and waterfall need to be different.

Jason's take
"The LPA outlives the deal. Draft it like the next ten deals will be governed by the same paper."
Jason Powell · Capital Partner LPA
Capital after close

The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.

Most independent sponsors solve the closing capital and then run into the post-close capital problem alone. The capital markets relationships that matter at month 18 are part of this practice.

MONTH 18
Senior refi
MONTH 24
Dividend recap
MONTH 36
Growth equity
YEAR 4–5
Strategic exit
ENGAGE THE PRACTICE

Capital Partner LPA for Insurance Brokerage, on independent sponsor terms.

Independent sponsor counsel that already speaks fluent deal-by-deal economics, structures clean LPAs, and travels with capital markets relationships for what comes after close.