Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

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Activist Icahn Breaks Up with AIG, Sells Shares

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...

AssuredPartners Acquires Wisconsin’s National Insurance Services

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...

Allianz Sells 8.4% Stake in Portugal’s Banco BPI to CaixaBank

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....

Hartford Insurtech Hub Gives 10 Startups Shots at Partnerships with Insurers

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...

Alliant Insurance Services Acquires Illinois’ Engel Agency

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...

Cochrane & Co. Acquires Heritage General Agency in Colorado

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...

Drugmakers Balk at Funding Opioid Epidemic Fix; Counting on Court Wins

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...

Mark Edward Partners Acquires New York’s Kaplow Insurance Agency

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...

AXA Wasn’t the Only Party Interested in Acquiring XL

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...

Losada joins Tower MSA Partners in Florida

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...

AssuredPartners Acquires Cornerstone Insurance Group in St. Louis

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...

Hub Acquires Assets from Kelly King in California

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...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires ClearPoint in Washington

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...

AIG Acquisition Target Validus Reports Q1 Loss

May 3 2018 // Validus Holdings reported it lost money during the 2018 first quarter, due partly to more expenses, an underwriting loss in its insurance segment and a drop in income for the carrier’s reinsurance arm.The downbeat...

Associated Banc-Corp Acquiring Minnesota’s Anderson Insurance & Investment

May 2 2018 // Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Associated Banc-Corp (Associated) announced its Associated Benefits and Risk Consulting (ABRC) group will acquire Anderson Insurance & Investment Agency Inc. (Anderson), an independent...

Brown & Brown to Acquire Servco Pacific in Hawaii and Northwest

May 2 2018 // Brown & Brown Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire the Servco Pacific Insurance operations in Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.The transaction is expected to close in June 2018, subject to certain closing...

H.W. Kaufman Group Acquires Premium Financing Firm, Stonemark, in Dallas

May 1 2018 // H.W. Kaufman Group has acquired Dallas-based premium financing firm, Stonemark Inc., with plans to merge it into Kaufman subsidiary, Royal Premium.The merger will create a new organization under the Stonemark brand....

Acquisition of Novae Boosts Q1 Results for AXIS Capital

May 1 2018 // AXIS Capital Holdings saw its first-quarter net income and premium volume jump considerably, year-over-year, gains driven largely from its $611.5 million acquisition of Novae Group plc in late 2017.The Bermuda-based...

Peter C. Foy & Associates Completes Acquisitions in California and Nevada

Apr 30 2018 // Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Peter C. Foy & Associates Insurance Services LLC has completed the acquisition of four agencies, three in California and one in Nevada.The acquisitions are Walnut Creek, Calif.-based R.L....

China’s Baidu Selling Majority Stake in Fintechs; May Enter Insurance

Apr 30 2018 // China’s Baidu Inc. said it will sell a majority stake in its financial services business for about $1.9 billion to a consortium led by TPG Capital Management LP and Carlyle Group LP, as it looks to deepen its push...