All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2016 // Cody Ritchie of Crest Insurance Group LLC in Arizona and Ron Wilson of Partners of the West Insurance Services in San Diego, Calif. have merged. Wilson will continue to manage the California division of Crest. Crest...
Apr 6 2016 // PartnerRe Ltd. announced that Mario Bonaccorso, formerly managing director at EXOR SpA, has been appointed chief financial officer, subject to Bermuda Immigration approval.Bill Babcock, who has served as executive vice...
Apr 6 2016 // Anbang Insurance Group Co., which walked away from a bid to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. last week, has agreed to buy Allianz SE’s operations in South Korea.The Chinese insurer will purchase...
Apr 5 2016 // Risk Strategies Company, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm based in Boston, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Maggs & Associates in Schenectady, New York. Terms of the...
Apr 5 2016 // Wholesale Trading Co-Op Insurance Services, a wholesale brokerage based in New York City, recently announced that its assets will be acquired by private-equity giant Carlyle Group. Terms of the transaction were not...
Apr 5 2016 // Miami, Fla.-based auto insurer, Windhaven Insurance, announced it has acquired ATX Premier, a Texas-based property/casualty provider, in an agreement with NationsBuilders Insurance Services Inc. (NBIS).Technology-focused,...
Apr 5 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Forest Sherer Insurance Inc. (Forrest Sherer) from First Financial Corp. Headquartered in Terre Haute, Ind., Forrest Sherer has been providing property-casualty, employee benefits...
Apr 5 2016 // Element Risk Management, an independent agency based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, with an additional office in Bel Air, Maryland, announced that it has acquired Barnett Insurance Inc., an independent agency in...
Apr 5 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has issued a Consent Order (see below) approving, with additional requirements, Anthem, Inc.’s (Anthem) application to acquire 100 percent of the issued and...
Apr 5 2016 // Ageas has completed the purchase of AXA’s Portuguese operations, which has a non-life business, a direct/internet non-life business and a life business.AXA said the sale was completed for a total cash consideration...
Apr 5 2016 // The flurry of insurance mergers and acquisitions that yielded about $150 billion of transactions globally in 2015 may endure even after years of “patchy” results for some companies making deals, according to...
Apr 5 2016 // AXA Philippines announced it has completed the acquisition of Charter Ping An Insurance Co. for €40 million ($45.6 million) from GT Capital. The acquisition of CPA, the fifth largest non-life insurer in the Philippines,...
Apr 4 2016 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of La Quinta, Calif.-based Pickett and Associates Inc.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pickett’s owners Debra Pickett and Richard Torres will join Hub California...
Apr 4 2016 // CBIZ Inc., a professional business services firm based in Cleveland, announced that it has acquired the Savitz Organization in Philadelphia, effective April 1. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1968,...
Apr 4 2016 // Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has acquired Spokane, Wash.-based Andre-Romberg Insurance Agency.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Andre-Romberg will operate as part of Alliant Americas. Kurtz, along with...
Apr 4 2016 // Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, announced Monday that it has entered the Massachusetts market with the acquisition of Axiom Insurance Agency based in Springfield. Terms of the...
Apr 4 2016 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, announced Monday that it has acquired Corporate Consulting Services Ltd., a New York City-based insurance brokerage and human resource...
Apr 4 2016 // Ryan Direct Group, the subsidiary of Chicago-based Ryan Specialty Group, announced the completion of the acquisition of Midas Underwriting, which was completed on March 31, following regulatory approval. This transaction...
Apr 4 2016 // Program specialist K2 Insurance Services (K2) has acquired a New Jersey managing general agency specializing in workers’ compensation alternatives and also launched a nationwide workers’ compensation program...
Apr 4 2016 // Watford Re Ltd. has formed a new excess and surplus lines insurer called Watford Specialty Insurance Co. (WSIC), based in Morristown, N.J.WSIC’s lines of business “will be similar to what we’ve been...