Author: Simone Bonnet
Deals today are more complex and time-sensitive than ever, with rising pressure to move quickly and get it right. Despite this, sponsors, advisors and insurers are still operating within fragmented models. Too often, they have separate workstreams, multiple handoffs and misaligned priorities.
The result is friction at a time when clarity matters most. Simone Bonnet has seen this firsthand from every side of the deal. With experience spanning litigation, in-house counsel, underwriting and brokerage, Simone has worked across the full lifecycle of deals. That perspective has led to a consistent conclusion — deals rarely break down because of strategy. They break down due to how they are managed.
"Legal training gives you a deep understanding of risk and how it's allocated," Bonnet explains. "But moving across underwriting and brokerage, you start to see where disconnects occur, between teams, between priorities and often at the most critical points in the process." Those disconnects have only become more pronounced as the M&A market has evolved over the last decade.
The rise in representations and warranties insurance has reshaped how transactions are structured. Investors are more sophisticated; timelines are tighter and deals typically involve more stakeholders across more complex structures. Despite this, many deal processes still rely on siloed execution, where diligence, insurance and advisory are approached as separate workstreams rather than coordinated parts of a single process. The result is inefficiency and, more importantly, avoidable risk.
The challenge today isn't just executing a deal. It's executing it in a way that keeps all the moving parts aligned from the start. This shift from fragmentation to a more coordinated approach is where the next evolution of deal execution is taking place.
Recognizing this, we built M&A and Private Equity Portfolio Solutions platform (GMAPS) to meet the demands of modern deal execution, bringing greater coordination and end-to-end efficiency to the process. Rather than layering additional providers into an already fragmented transaction process, GMAPS brings transactional risk insurance, diligence and advisory together within a single, coordinated approach. Senior professionals are engaged from the outset and work directly with clients and their legal teams to drive alignment across the transaction lifecycle, from diligence through underwriting and into post-close strategy. The goal isn't to add another layer to the deal process, but to simplify it.
"Through GMAPS, we've built a model where senior leaders are embedded in execution," Bonnet notes. "That eliminates unnecessary handoffs and creates a more cohesive experience. It delivers a boutique level of attention and expertise, supported by the scale and market access of a global platform."
As transactions continue to evolve, so must the way they are executed. Firms that remain tied to traditional, fragmented processes will face growing pressure, while those that rethink execution around greater coordination and alignment will be best positioned to shape the next phase of the market.
Modern deals demand a different model. The firms that recognize that shift will be best positioned to lead in the next generation of M&A.
