All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 27 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired business insurance specialist Advanced Insurance Underwriters (AIU), headquartered in Hollywood, Fla. Terms of...
Dec 22 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Group Insurance Associates Inc. in Metairie, Louisiana.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1983, Group Insurance Associates Inc. (GIA) is an employee benefits...
Dec 20 2016 // Fort Worth-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham, and Insurance Associates of the Southwest (IAS) have merged their operations in Houston.IAS is an independent broker with 38 commercial, personal, life, health...
Dec 20 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired National Ethics Bureau Inc. in Carlsbad, Calif.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Japheth Smellie and his team will continue to operate from their Southern California location...
Dec 20 2016 // Acrisure LLC has acquired Alaska USA Insurance Brokers’ commercial insurance and employee benefits books of business.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The new company will operate under the name Insurance Brokers...
Dec 20 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Ball Peoples, an employee benefits advisory firm headquartered in Austin, Texas.Since 1975, Ball Peoples has been providing employee benefits for clients throughout Central Texas...
Dec 20 2016 // Kaplansky Insurance, a Needham, Mass., based independent insurance agency, has acquired certain assets of R.P. Ahearn Insurance Agency, based in Framingham, Mass.Since 1987, R.P. Ahearn Insurance has been dedicated to...
Dec 20 2016 // XL Catlin’s insurance operations announced it has extended its partnership with S-RM, the London-based specialist risk and business intelligence consultancy, effective Jan. 1, 2017.S-RM becomes XL Catlin’s...
Dec 19 2016 // Guidewire Software, which serves property/casualty insurers, has agreed to acquire another insurance software firm, San Jose, California-based ISCS, for $160 million in cash.The deal gives Guidewire entry into the small...
Dec 19 2016 // Confie has acquired Mesa, Ariz.-based Oasis Insurance. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Oasis Insurance is a provider of non-standard auto insurance. It operates from 21 offices located in Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa,...
Dec 19 2016 // JLT Re said it has acquired StoneHill Reinsurance Partners, a reinsurance intermediary specializing in medical professional liability.StoneHill, which is based in Minneapolis, will form part of JLT Re (North America)....
Dec 19 2016 // Anthem Inc. and the U.S. Justice Department extended their clash over whether the insurer’s planned takeover of rival Cigna Corp. will raise costs, as government witnesses testified Friday that the deal will harm...
Dec 19 2016 // Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., the Canadian investment and insurance company, agreed to buy Allied World Assurance Co. for $4.9 billion in cash and stock in Chief Executive Officer Prem Watsa’s biggest...
Dec 19 2016 // M&A and Brexit will be major factors for the global re/insurance industry over the coming year, according to predictions from the insurance team at the international law firm Clyde & Co.Andrew Holderness, a partner...
Dec 15 2016 // Origami Risk has acquired Kaysville, Utah-based Claimwire, a provider of automated workers’ compensation forms, compliance resources and regulatory information to the insurance industry.Terms of the deal were not...
Dec 15 2016 // Oklahoma City-based INSURICA and Amarillo, Texas-based DFB Insurance Group have combined to form INSURICA DFB Insurance Services LLC.The new entity will be jointly owned by INSURICA and DFB. The transaction, effective Jan....
Dec 15 2016 // Cross Insurance, a Bangor, Maine, based subsidiary of Cross Financial Corp. and one of the largest independent insurance providers in New England, has further expanded its presence in western Massachusetts, New York and...
Dec 14 2016 // South Africa’s Rand Merchant Investment Holdings ramped up its presence in the British insurance market on Wednesday with the purchase of a 30 percent stake in Hastings, driving the UK firm’s shares to 2-1/2...
Dec 14 2016 // Mountain View, Calif.-based startup Hippo today announced it has closed a $14 million Series A round.The funding was led by Horizons Ventures, which invests in disruptive technology and startups. It was joined by RPM...
Dec 14 2016 // Preparing to capitalize on merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2017, XL Catlin continued to build out its global M&A insurance team with the appointments of Joseph W. Laws and Michael J. McGowan as directors...