Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

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NSM Insurance Group Acquires TranSpec of Tennessee

Feb 9 2018 // NSM Insurance Group, the national leader of industry-specific insurance program administration, announced Tuesday that it has acquired TranSpec, a highly specialized transportation insurance broker located in...

HVACi Acquires Kentucky-Based Donan Engineering’s HVAC Forensics Division

Feb 8 2018 // HVAC Investigators (HVACi), a national provider of HVAC damage assessments for insurance claims, has acquired Donan Engineering’s HVAC Forensics division, based in Louisville, Ky. The consolidation of two brands in...

Tort Reform Upstages Effort to Put Road Funding Measure on Arkansas Ballot

Feb 8 2018 // The Arkansas Highway Commission has voted to drop an effort to put a road funding plan on the November ballot and instead will try again with a proposal it will advocate to lawmakers next year.Commissioners cited the...

Alera Group Acquires Three East Region Firms

Feb 8 2018 // Alera Group, a Deerfield, Ill.-based national employee benefits, property/casualty, risk management and wealth management firm, has acquired three East region firms, effective February 1, 2018.Aisling Partners Insurance...

Nationwide-Backed Fund to Acquire Solar Projects

Feb 8 2018 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and clean energy developer Sol Systems are investing $100 million into a fund they are forming to acquire U.S. solar projects.The Helios Infrastructure Fund plans to buy more than 330...

Japan’s SoftBank in Talks to Buy Stake in Swiss Re

Feb 7 2018 // Swiss Re said it is in preliminary talks to sell a minority stake to SoftBank Group – a deal that reportedly could be worth $10 billion or more, in what would be the Japanese firm’s biggest financial services...

Alera Group Acquires Davidson Benefits Planning in Oregon

Feb 7 2018 // Alera Group has acquired Davidson Benefits Planning, headquartered in Tigard, Ore.Alera made the purchase along with the purchase of three other firms effective Feb. 1, bringing the total number of acquisitions since...

AmWINS Completes Acquisition of Seacoast Brokers, Trident Claims Management

Feb 7 2018 // AmWINS Group, Inc., a global distributor of specialty insurance products and services, has completed the previously announced acquisition of Seacoast Brokers, LLC, and Trident Claims Management, LLC.Seacoast is a personal...

Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires South Dakota’s Williams Insurance Agency

Feb 7 2018 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Williams Insurance Agency Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1967, Williams Insurance Agency offers a full range of...

Munich Re to Offer Drone Services to Clients Through Partnership with Betterview

Feb 6 2018 // Betterview, a drone-based inspection company specializing in risk and damage assessments, has formed an agreement with Munich Reinsurance America, Inc. (Munich Re) to offer drone imagery, analysis and reporting to Munich...

Hub Acquires Assets of Der Manouel in California

Feb 6 2018 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Fresno, Calif.-based Der Manouel Insurance & Financial Services Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DMIG’s leadership team and staff will join Hub...

Technology Partnerships Key to Insurance Industry’s Exit from `Stone Age:’ Aviva CEO

Feb 6 2018 // The insurance industry is “generally in the stone age,” and partnerships with technology companies are the way forward, according to Aviva Plc’s chief executive officer.His company, the U.K.’s...

Worley Claims Services Acquires Audit Services Incorporated of Georgia

Feb 6 2018 // Worley Claims Services, LLC, a provider of claims services in North America, has acquired Audit Services Incorporated (ASI), a claim estimate writing and review supplier for the property and auto insurance markets based in...

Hub International Acquires Texas-Based IPS Advisors

Feb 5 2018 // Chicago-based global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of IPS Advisors LLP and IPS RIA LLC (IPS Advisors). IPS is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Houston, Austin,...

Japan’s Peer-to-Peer Vouch Insurtech Raises Seed Funding

Feb 5 2018 // Taiwan venture capital firm Nogle Capital Management, Singapore venture capital firm GREE Ventures and several angel investors have participated in the seed funding round of SGD$1 million for Singapore startup Vouch...

Indiana’s ONI Risk Partners Adds Loveless as Commercial Risk Adviser

Feb 5 2018 // Independent insurance broker ONI Risk Partners (ONI) has hired Mike Loveless as a commercial risk adviser in ONI’s Fort Wayne, Indiana, office.ONI is a full-service insurance agency delivering commercial, employee...

Insurance Agency M&As Soared 31% in 2017: OPTIS

Feb 5 2018 // Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies last year broke all records in 2017, according to OPTIS Partners’ annual report. The OPTIS database recorded 604 deals in the United States and Canada in 2017, a 31...

Still Hot… M&As to Date in 2018

Feb 5 2018 // M&A activity in the insurance industry was hot in 2017, and thus far in 2018, it shows no signs of cooling, with 30 deals announced in the month of January alone. The following are reports from the InsuranceJournal.com...

Hub International Acquires Indiana’s Susoreny & Associates

Feb 2 2018 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Susoreny & Associates Inc.Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Headquartered in Crown Point, Indiana, Susoreny &...

Ryan Specialty Group Completes Acquisition of New York’s Irwin Siegel Agency

Feb 2 2018 // Ryan Specialty Group LLC, a Chicago, Ill.-headquartered international specialty insurance organization, has completed its acquisition of the assets and operations of the Irwin Siegel Agency Inc. (ISA). This transaction was...