All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2020 // Marshall & Sterling Insurance, a 100% employee-owned company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Jaeger & Flynn Associates Inc. (JFA), an employee benefits broker and third-party administrative services (TPA)...
Dec 16 2020 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Sitka, Alaska-based Venneberg Insurance. All of the agency’s employees, including Mike Venneberg, owner and principal, will be joining USI. Terms of the deal were not...
Dec 16 2020 // Innovative Risk Management (IRM), a specialty program management firm based in Dallas and established in 1991, has added four new partners to help secure the continued success of the organization.Chris Lovisone has held...
Dec 16 2020 // Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP (FMG), a nationwide litigation law firm with 200 attorneys and 19 offices in 10 states, has hired Alicia Santocki as a partner in the New York City office.Santocki also will practice in...
Dec 16 2020 // MILAN — Italy’s Banco BPM said it would end an insurance partnership with Cattolica by acquiring full control of their joint-ventures, in a move that may ease a mooted tie-up with BPER Banca.Banco BPM said late...
Dec 16 2020 // Curley Associates, an insurance agency based in Sanford, Maine, has acquired Robert L. Haley Agency Inc. of Gray, Maine. The acquisition was effective October 16, 2020.According to Curley, the Gray location will remain...
Dec 15 2020 // Hull & Company LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all the assets of Addison, Texas-based South & Western Inc. and all issued and outstanding shares of its affiliate, S&W...
Dec 15 2020 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Jenkintown, Penn.-based Premier Brokerage Services Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1995, Premier is a high-net-worth focused life insurance wholesale...
Dec 15 2020 // Carrick Specialty Holdings LLC, a New York City-based international non-life legacy business that provides reinsurance and run-off management solutions, announced its UK-based subsidiary, Carrick UK Holdings Co. Ltd., has...
Dec 14 2020 // Insurer broker Aon has acquired a 49% equity stake in Anviti Insurance Brokers Pvt. Ltd, a fast-growing, composite broking firm in India.Anviti will transition to the Aon brand pending regulatory approvals. Financial...
Dec 11 2020 // DOXA Insurance Holdings LLC (DOXA) has acquired Conroe, Texas-based Marine Underwriters of America (MUA), a niche agency serving the marine industry with specialized insurance policies for ocean marine, inland marine and...
Dec 11 2020 // LONDON – A record rebound in merger activity this year and a rise in litigation has brought with it an upsurge in insurance policies that give companies and private equity firms cover for when a deal goes wrong, industry...
Dec 11 2020 // DOXA Insurance Holdings, an acquirer of specialty niche-focused insurance distribution companies, has established a strategic relationship with Century Equity Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, in order to...
Dec 11 2020 // UK startup battleface Inc., a company that specializes in tech-enabled global travel insurance, announced a $12-million Series A financing round from Drive Capital, a Columbus, Ohio-based venture capital firm. The...
Dec 11 2020 // Zurich Insurance and Farmers Exchanges have agreed to buy MetLife’s U.S. property and casualty business for $3.94 billion, the insurers said on Friday, after the COVID-19 pandemic made motor and home insurers more...
Dec 11 2020 // Digital small business insurer Next Insurance has closed its first acquisition, buying Juniper Labs, a Denver-based provider of data and underwriting technology.With the acquisition, Next said it will focus on innovation...
Dec 10 2020 // Irvine, Calif.-based Burnham Benefits Insurance Services Inc., Burnham Gibson Wealth Advisors, Inc., and Burnham Risk and Insurance Solutions LLC has been acquired by Baldwyn Krystyn Sherman Partners LLC.Burnham will a...
Dec 10 2020 // A federal appeals court has affirmed that Mississippi parents may pursue a lawsuit that says the state allows grave disparities in funding between predominantly Black and predominantly white schools.The 5th U.S. Circuit...
Dec 10 2020 // Insurers pummeled by the pandemic are looking to deals as they race to see who’ll emerge strongest when the outbreak subsides.The takeover of RSA Insurance Group Plc and Allstate Corp.’s largest acquisition...
Dec 10 2020 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Queensbury, N.Y.-based Cool Insuring Agency Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1857, Cool Insuring Agency provides commercial, personal, life and health...