All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Hanratty & Associates Inc., headquartered in Plymouth, Minn.Hanratty & Associates has been providing employee benefits and consulting for nearly 40 years. The employees...
May 3 2016 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Hagan Newkirk Financial Services in Little Rock, Ark. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. With operations dating back to the 1960s, Hagan Newkirk Financial Services...
May 3 2016 // Global Risk Partners Ltd. (GRP), the London-based insurance broking and managing general agent investment vehicle, has completed its second transaction in Northern Ireland by funding the acquisition of broker McGrady Ltd....
May 3 2016 // Aegon NV agreed to buy BlackRock Inc.’s U.K. defined-contribution pension business to bolster its position in the country’s workplace-savings market. The deal will transfer 12 billion pounds ($17.6 billion) of...
May 3 2016 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of New Mexico-based First Santa Fe Insurance Services Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. First Santa Fe’s operations will become a part of Hub New Mexico and be...
May 2 2016 // Prime Risk Partners Inc. reported it has entered into an agreement to acquire Old National Insurance (ONI), a large independent insurance agency in the Midwest.ONI will operate under the name ONI Risk Partners and will...
May 2 2016 // The Texas-based agency partnership Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced that it produced $96.3 million in total property and casualty revenue in 2015, compared to the $92.2 million in total revenue produced in...
May 2 2016 // The Alabama Center for Insurance Information and Research at The University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Commerce has partnered with the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, the Alabama Department of...
Apr 27 2016 // San Diego, Calif.-based Champion Risk & Insurance Services has acquired Clay Insurance Brokerage Co. in Rancho Santa Margarita. Terms of the deal weren’t released. The acquisition is effective May 1. Robert...
Apr 27 2016 // Global Risk Partners, the acquisitive insurance broking and managing general agency (MGA) investment vehicle, has agreed to back the management buyout of LONMAR Global Risks, the specialist Lloyd’s broker. The...
Apr 26 2016 // JenCap Holdings LLC, a portfolio company of private-equity giant Carlyle Group, has acquired Trivedi-Capacity Associates LLC, a specialist MGA and wholesaler based in Mahwah, New Jersey. Terms of the transaction were not...
Apr 26 2016 // Daniel Labrie Hanover Stone Partners, a risk management services firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, has hired Daniel Labrie as senior risk advisor. Based in Berlin, Connecticut, Labrie will help provide a wide array of...
Apr 26 2016 // American International Group, Bermuda-based Hamilton Insurance Group and affiliates of hedge fund firm Two Sigma Investments said they have agreed to create a technology-enabled insurance platform for sales to the small to...
Apr 25 2016 // John Garber KMRD Partners, an insurance brokerage and risk management services firm based in Warrington, Pennsylvania, has hired John Garber and Karl Granlun as risk managers. Garber’s role as risk manager, Client...
Apr 22 2016 // United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance), a property/casualty insurance holding company based in St. Petersburg, Florida, announced that it received formal approval from the New York State Department of Financial...
Apr 21 2016 // People’s United Bank, N.A. in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announced Thursday that its subsidiary, People’s United Insurance Agency, has acquired Eagle Insurance Group, a Raynham, Massachusetts-based insurance...
Apr 20 2016 // Many insurers see cultural integration as a major post-deal challenge, but few use employee engagement as an indicator of integration success, according to a survey of senior insurance executives conducted by Willis Towers...
Apr 20 2016 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Toledo, Ohio-based Brooks Insurance. Brooks employees will remain at their Toledo and Bowling Green locations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Brooks provides property/casualty,...
Apr 20 2016 // Specialty insurer Beazley has appointed Elizabeth Benet, formerly of General Re, to head new business development for its partner solutions focus group. Beazley’s specialty treaty team partners with insurance...
Apr 20 2016 // Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford (CGSC), the London-based reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, announced the appointment of Andy Wallin as group commercial director. He takes up the role with immediate effect.Wallin...