All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2020 // Fort Worth, Texas-headquartered insurance and financial services firm, Higginbotham, is purchasing meals from local eateries that have temporarily reduced their operations to take-out and delivery due to COVID-19 mandates....
Mar 31 2020 // Global mergers and acquisitions activity plunged 28% in the first quarter to its lowest level since 2016 as the devastating economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic took hold in March, compounding a slow start to the...
Mar 27 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA), based in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, has acquired TAB Insurance Agency LLC of Frisco, Texas.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. TAB Insurance Agency a full service, independent...
Mar 26 2020 // Texas-based Hotchkiss Insurance, a full-service independent agency, has named Chris Hamilton as its newest partner.Hamilton has extensive experience as an employee benefits and risk management consultant, with previous...
Mar 26 2020 // Several Australian companies are reviewing or even terminating takeover deals by using a legal escape route because of the devastating impact of the coronavirus, a template that some lawyers expect to be replicated in...
Mar 25 2020 // Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired Parimah Hassouri to its New York office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group.Her appointment follows the recent addition of Rajab Abbassi as a partner in New York and bolsters...
Mar 25 2020 // Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Co. has entered into a strategic relationship with RiskGenius to expand the detection and qualitative analysis of silent cyber exposure across various lines of business.RiskGenius...
Mar 25 2020 // ONI Risk Partners, an EPIC Company, has hired Brian Woods as a Commercial Insurance Risk Advisor in Kentucky. Wood will consult with mid-to-large commercial insurance clients in the Louisville area to identify, assess, and...
Mar 24 2020 // The Hilb Group LLC (THG) has acquired Healthcare Liability Consultants Agency Inc., and hired owner and medical malpractice insurance specialist, Julie Paton, as a producer. Paton is based in Cleveland, Ohio.The...
Mar 24 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired Virginia Insurance Partners (VIP). The transaction was effective February 1, 2020, and terms of the deal were not disclosed.VIP is an independent insurance agency that...
Mar 24 2020 // Peachtree Special Risk Brokers LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of RLA Insurance Intermediaries.RLA Insurance Intermediaries was founded in 2010 by Jeff Hays and...
Mar 24 2020 // BMS Group, the independent specialist re/insurance broker, announced its Spanish subsidiary, BMS Iberia, has acquired Jurado Mata, the Granada-based Spanish specialist insurance broker.Financial details of the transaction...
Mar 23 2020 // The Financial Stability Rating (FSR) of A, Exceptional, assigned to Louisiana’s Centauri National Insurance Co. by Demotech Inc. may be subject to change as Centauri National’s parent company, Centauri...
Mar 23 2020 // NSM Insurance Group (NSM), a Pennsylvania-headquartered managing general underwriting agency and program administrator for specialty insurance programs, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kingsbridge Group...
Mar 23 2020 // AmTrust Financial Services said it will transfer to Liberty Mutual’s Safeco Insurance unit the renewal rights for the personal lines business in six states of Dallas-based Republic Group, an AmTrust company.The deal...
Mar 23 2020 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. plans to acquire its sister carrier, Prepared Insurance Company (Prepared), from Prepared Holdings Group.Lighthouse is a Louisiana-domiciled property and casualty insurance carrier...
Mar 20 2020 // The Financial Stability Rating (FSR) of A, Exceptional, has been assigned to Centauri Specialty Insurance Co. in Hawaii due to its pending acquisition by Avatar Partners LP, parent of Avatar Property & Casualty...
Mar 20 2020 // Alera Group has acquired Fall River Employee Benefits in Denver, Colo.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fall River joins Alera Group through Benefit Commerce Group, an Alera Group company. The Fall River team will...
Mar 19 2020 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property and casualty, retirement services and wealth management firm, has acquired Trilogy Group Benefits LLC, effective February 28, 2020.Trilogy joins Alera Group through local...
Mar 19 2020 // Prudential Plc, the UK insurer besieged by activist investor Third Point, has agreed to acquire a bancassurance partnership in Thailand from FWD Group Ltd. in a 24.5 billion baht ($753 million) deal.Prudential’s Thai...