Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

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PCF Insurance Acquires Multiple Agencies, Benefits Platform

Jun 25 2024 // PCF Insurance Services, a multi-state brokerage headquartered in Utah, announced it has acquired four new operations, two of them in the Southeast.The Brady Agency, offering commercial and personal lines coverage in North...

Business Moves: Broker PCF Makes 4 Acquisitions in 4 States

Jun 25 2024 // Broker PCF Insurance Services continued its recent buying spree with the purchase of four insurance businesses in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and Iowa.“At PCF Insurance, we are committed to accelerated...

Smart Choice Experiences Record Expansion Driven by Acquisitions and Organic Growth

Jun 20 2024 // In the past year, over 100 million in acquisitions have been completed.GREENSBORO, NC., June 18, 2024— Smart Choice® experiences record expansion driven by acquisitions and organic growth. In the past year, over $100...

Zurich Completes Acquisition of 70% Stake in India’s Kotak General Insurance

Jun 19 2024 // Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. has completed the acquisition of a 70% stake in Kotak Mahindra General Insurance Co. Ltd. for US$670 million – marking the largest foreign investment in India’s general insurance...

Insurance M&A – a 2024 Outlook

Jun 17 2024 // Experts are calling it: 2024 looks like a good year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the insurance industry. To make the most of this positive environment, buyers and sellers will be focusing on getting...

Broker Clear Group Buys UK Credit Insurance Specialist Rycroft Associates

Jun 14 2024 // The Clear Group, the London-based independent broker, announced it has acquired the book and assets of credit insurance broker Rycroft Associates LLP and its sister company and appointed representative, Inspire Credit...

Marsh McLennan Unit Mercer to Buy UK Pension Fund Manager Cardano

Jun 12 2024 // Insurance brokerage firm Marsh McLennan’s unit Mercer has agreed to buy Cardano, a London-based pension fund manager that oversees $66 billion of assets, to widen its foothold in the UK market.The deal, unveiled on...

PointeNorth Acquires McCrary-Daniels in Georgia, its Fifth Expansion This Year

Jun 12 2024 // PointeNorth Insurance Group, one of the largest independent insurance agencies in the Southeast, has acquired McCrary-Daniels Insurance, based in Douglas, Georgia. It’s the fifth acquisition this year and the second...

DOXA Acquires Illinois MGA CPH Insurance

Jun 11 2024 // DOXA Insurance announced the acquisition of CPH Insurance, a Chicago-based MGA providing professional liability products for mental health, allied health and healthcare professionals. Founded in 2000 by founder and...

ALKEME Acquires Personal and Commercial Specialist InsurePro in Utah

Jun 11 2024 // ALKEME acquired InsurePro in Draper, Utah. Ladera Ranch, California-ALKEME is an insurance agency providing businesses and individuals with commercial and personal insurance, employee and executive benefits, retirement and...

Brown & Brown Acquires Minnesota’s McNamara Company

Jun 7 2024 // Brown & Brown, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of McNamara Company. McNamara Company is a family-owned agency that has been servicing customers in all 50 states for four generations. Established in 1970 in...

ALKEME Acquires Louisiana’s Hardwick Insurance

Jun 6 2024 // ALKEME, announced the acquisition of Hardwick Insurance, a commercial and personal specialist located in Lafayette, Louisiana. This strategic acquisition marks ALKEME’s expansion in the Southern United States and...

Hilb Group Acquires German American for $40M

Jun 5 2024 // Hilb Group announced and closed the sale of the assets of the wholly-owned subsidiary German American Insurance (GAI) to Hilb Group in an all-cash transaction of $40 million. The sale creates a significant after-tax gain,...

Hub Acquires Combined HCM in California

Jun 5 2024 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Combined Benefits Inc., Combined Commercial Insurance Services LLC., and Combined Employer Services Inc. Donny Woo, CEO, and Jonathan Zhao, vice president of payroll, and the...

Independence Pet Buys Bigger Stake in Miami-based Spot Pet Insurance

Jun 5 2024 // Independence Pet Holdings has acquired a majority interest in Spot Pet Insurance, an expansion of IPH’s 2022 investment in the Miami-headquartered insurer. Independence, founded in 2021 and helmed by CEO Lane Kent,...

Gallagher’s Pen Underwriting Acquires Irish MGA Wrightway Underwriting Ltd.

Jun 5 2024 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., the Rolling Meadows, Illinois-based broker, announced that its specialist underwriting subsidiary Pen Underwriting has acquired Ireland’s Wrightway Underwriting Ltd.Terms of the...

Marsh McLennan Agency Completes Fisher Brown Bottrell Acquisition

Jun 5 2024 // Marsh McLennan Agency said it completed its purchase of Fisher Brown Bottrell Insurance, Inc. from Trustmark National Bank for about $316 million.The subsidiary of Marsh said all Jackson, Mississippi-based Fisher Brown...

Hub Acquires Vermont’s Essex Agency

Jun 5 2024 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited reported it has acquired The Essex Agency, Inc. of Essex Junction, Vermont.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Essex Agency is an independent insurance agency...

NSM Acquires Reinsurance MGA Strategic Underwriters International

Jun 5 2024 // Global specialty insurance broker NSM Insurance Group has completed its acquisition of Strategic Underwriters International (SUI).Based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, SUI is a managing general agent (MGA) in the casualty...

RiverStone Acquires Electric Insurance; Plymouth Rock Gets Renewal Rights

Jun 3 2024 // RiverStone International reports it has closed on its acquisition of Electric Insurance Co. and its two subsidiaries, Elm Insurance Co. and Electric Insurance Agency.Electric Insurance is a Beverly, Massachusetts-domiciled...