All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 9 2018 // Alera Group, a national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm based in Deerfield, Illinois, has acquired Benefit Plan Strategies (BPS), headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Alera...
May 9 2018 // California-based At-Bay, a digital cyber risk monitoring and insurance firm, reports it raised $13 million in Series A funding, bringing the start-up’s total funding to $19 million.At-Bay is developing what it calls...
May 9 2018 // Insurance broker Gallagher reports it has acquired regional commercial insurance broker Risk Services (NW) Ltd., based in Chester. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Risk Services was established in 1999 by...
May 9 2018 // USI Insurance Services (USI) announced the closing of its acquisition of Key Insurance & Benefits Services Inc., formerly part of KeyBank. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.USI is a Valhalla,...
May 9 2018 // Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Barnett Corporate Insurers, LLC (or The Barnett Group). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., The Barnett Group provides employee...
May 8 2018 // Auburn, Wash.-based HBT Insurance has been acquired by Leavitt Group.HBT will affiliate with the group and merge with Leavitt Group Northwest. Terms of the deal weren’t announced.HBT’s Bill Cowart and Bob...
May 8 2018 // USI Insurance Services (USI), based in Valhalla, N.Y., has closed the acquisition of CHS Insurance, formerly part of Minnesota-based fuel, grain and food cooperative, CHS Inc.CHS Insurance is one of the nation’s...
May 8 2018 // Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has sold his stake in American International Group Inc, ending a more than two-year association with one of the largest U.S. property and casualty insurers, according to a person familiar...
May 7 2018 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired National Insurance Services (NIS), headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin.NIS is trusted by over 2,500 public sector organizations in 29 states for employee benefits consulting and...
May 7 2018 // Allianz Group said it has agreed to sell shares representing 8.4 percent of the share capital of Banco BPI to CaixaBank.The total purchase price for this transaction is 178 million euros or 1.45 euros per Banco BPI share....
May 7 2018 // Emerging from a 10-week accelerator program, 10 technology-powered insurance startups presented ideas for enhanced customer engagement, cyber security, digital health, smart home products and supply chain management at the...
May 4 2018 // Newport Beach, California-based Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Engel Agency Inc., located in the Chicago area.Family owned and operated, Engel Agency, led by President Paul Engelhard, has a strong institutional...
May 4 2018 // Cochrane & Co. has acquired the assets of Heritage General Agency, a wholesale managing general agent, based out of Englewood, Colo. HGA will become part of Cochrane and will establish Cochrane’s presence in...
May 4 2018 // Drug companies are in no rush to finance a solution to the opioid epidemic.Companies including Johnson & Johnson and McKesson Corp. are preparing to take their chances in court rather than pay billions of dollars to...
May 4 2018 // Mark Edward Partners, an independent, full-service, international insurance brokerage firm, has acquired the Kaplow Insurance Agency, a Chappaqua, N.Y.-based firm that has specialized in equine insurance for more than 50...
May 4 2018 // According to details revealed in a public filing earlier this week, two parties approached XL Group for potential tie-ups before AXA started to pursue a deal—and seven, in total, were interested before AXA and XL agreed...
May 4 2018 // Kathleen Losada has joined Tower MSA Partners of Delray Beach, Fla., as vice president of strategic services.In this role, she will be responsible for identifying new markets and service offerings for the company, which...
May 3 2018 // AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired Cornerstone Insurance Group, based in St. Louis, Missouri.Cornerstone is a full-service insurance firm providing employee benefits, risk management and personal insurance solutions. The...
May 3 2018 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired certain assets from Kelly King Insurance Services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ripon, Calif., Kelly King’s property/casualty insurance solutions are focused on insuring...
May 3 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Bellevue, Wash.-based ClearPoint Financial Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Paul Grutzner, Michael Brown and their associates will continue to operate from their current...