All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2016 // Victor O. Schinnerer & Company and Spanning, an EMC company and provider of SaaS data protection, have released a new cyber security protection product.The collaboration, with help from Microsoft, is designed to help...
Jul 11 2016 // Liberty Kenya Holdings Ltd. is considering as many as 10 acquisition targets as part of the insurer’s five-year strategy to increase its foothold in East Africa’s biggest economy.“That is on the cards if...
Jul 7 2016 // SFM Mutual Insurance Co., a Midwest regional workers’ compensation insurer, has acquired Barrier Free Access, a Byron, Minn.-based provider of safe patient handling products, design consultation and training to...
Jul 7 2016 // National insurance distribution firm Confie has acquired two insurance brokerages in New York State – Lloyd D. Sprague & Son Inc. and J.N. Mason Agency Inc.Confie, a portfolio company of ABRY Partner, has completed...
Jul 7 2016 // Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, announced it has acquired HSBI Benefits Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, HSBI Benefits specializes in...
Jul 7 2016 // PartnerRe Ltd. has announced a series of appointments, following the reorganization of its business units announced on June 30, 2016.As previously announced, PartnerRe has restructured its business units in order to better...
Jul 6 2016 // Nexus Underwriting Management Ltd. has acquired 100 percent of the shareholding in Hong Kong-domiciled Beacon Underwriters Ltd., a marine managing general agent.Beacon was established in 2009 as a Lloyd’s coverholder...
Jul 6 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher has extended its investment in Scandinavia by acquiring an 85 percent stake in Swedish specialist insurance and reinsurance broker Brim AB.With revenues of US$11.4 million and employing 29 people, Brim...
Jul 6 2016 // MVB Financial Corp. has sold all of the assets of its wholly-owned subsidiary, MVB Insurance, LLC in Fairmont, W. Va., to USI Insurance Services LLC. MVB Insurance will retain the assets related to, and continue to...
Jul 5 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Tenth Dot Benefit Solutions, an employee benefits agency in Pittsburgh that is affiliated with Gateway Financial Group Inc. and does business...
Jul 5 2016 // A breakup of Anthem Inc.’s $48 billion bid for Cigna Corp., under scrutiny by U.S. antitrust regulators, could spark new deals for smaller health plans in a continued wave of industry consolidation.Smaller insurers...
Jul 1 2016 // PartnerRe Ltd. announced the formation of a new organizational structure designed to make it easier for clients to do business with the company.“The restructuring of PartnerRe’s business is aimed at better...
Jun 30 2016 // National insurance broker and consultant, NFP Corp., has acquired First West Brokerage Services Inc. (First West), based in Orem, Utah.Founded in 1987, First West is a full service benefits insurance broker and consultant...
Jun 30 2016 // Sompo Canopius AG and Mexico’s Grupo Nacional Provinical SAB formed a strategic partnership.This arrangement will help both parties to develop new business and insurance products for the Mexican market,...
Jun 30 2016 // Insurance Office of America (IOA) of Longwood, Florida, has acquired Thomas J. Hornung & Associates, an independent insurance agency in the Wilmington, Delaware area. Thomas J. Hornung, who founded the agency in 1997,...
Jun 30 2016 // Zurich Insurance Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group, has completed the acquisition of MAA Takaful Berhad (MAAT), a leading provider of Takaful products in Malaysia, from MAA Group Berhad and Solidarity Group...
Jun 29 2016 // Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked Republicans’ plan to partially fund President Barack Obama’s request for funding to tackle the Zika virus and attach it to other items Democrats dismissed as partisan,...
Jun 29 2016 // Anthem Inc. said it’s not in discussions with Cigna Corp. to end their $48 billion tie-up, as speculation about the health insurance deal’s fate mounts. The New York Post reported earlier that Anthem may be...
Jun 27 2016 // NFP, an insurance broker and consultant, has completed the sale of a majority stake in Kestra Financial (Kestra) to funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC (Stone Point), a private equity firm focused on investing in the...
Jun 24 2016 // Cross Insurance has expanded its presence in western Massachusetts, New York and southern Vermont with the purchase of Pittsfield, Massachusetts-based independent insurance agencyBardwell, Bowlby & Karam,which has been...