Today, we begin a series of podcasts designed to provide insights—both personally and professionally—into the people that lead the Transaction Insurance industry, and increase the understanding of the Transaction Insurance marketplace, products, and trends.

Listen below to Matt and Dan’s first podcast episode, a conversation with guest Jeff Cowhey:

In his current role at Ambridge Partners, Daniel Auslander is responsible for maintaining and developing their brokerage relationships.  Ambridge, a managing general underwriter, is a market leader in the Transactional Insurance product lines with a keen interest in expanding its product portfolio – including Directors & Officers Liability and Intellectual Property Insurance.

Mintz Member Matthew T. Simpson focuses his practice on helping his clients navigate increasingly complex corporate transactions including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and minority investments in the United States and abroad. He is a leader of the firm’s transactional insurance practice, offering his clients increasingly creative and effective ways to distinguish themselves in competitive processes while mitigating downside risk, and acts as underwriting counsel to a leading transactional insurance underwriter.

Jeffrey D. Cowhey is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ambridge Group, a managing general underwriter of Transactional, Legal Contingency, Management Liability, and Intellectual Property Insurance products. Established in October 2000, Ambridge provides its clients with customized and responsive underwriting solutions for a wide variety of exposures that prevent a transaction from being completed. Ambridge’s affiliate, Ambridge Europe Limited is a managing general underwriter of complex risks in the United Kingdom and other countries in the European Union and is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.