All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 20 2016 // Kristy Desmarais Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners) has promoted Kristy Desmarais to Benefits director. As Benefit’s director, Desmarais is responsible for the strategic planning and execution of...
Jan 19 2016 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of RPG Solutions, Inc. (RPG) of North Carolina. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Raleigh, RPG specializes in...
Jan 19 2016 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that it has acquired Roehrs & Company Inc., an independent agency based in Exton, Pennsylvania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Roehrs & Company was founded in 1923 by...
Jan 15 2016 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has acquired Southlake, Texas-based managing general agency and wholesale insurance broker, American Underwriting Managers (AUM). For 17 years AUM has served the needs of retail insurance...
Jan 15 2016 // USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Healthcare Liability Solutions LLC (HLS), located in Houston, Texas.HLS is a property and casualty brokerage firm dedicated to customizing insurance programs for healthcare...
Jan 15 2016 // Liberty Mutual Insurance named Fernando Cámbara Lodigiani as CEO of its Chile operations following its acquisition of approximately 99.6 percent of Compañía de Seguros Generales Penta Security S.A. (Penta...
Jan 14 2016 // Ascension Insurance Inc. has acquired Sundance Insurance Inc. in Yuma, Ariz. Don Werley and Debbie Blakesley, the previous co-owners of the Sundance, will join Ascension as senior vice president and senior account...
Jan 14 2016 // ACE Ltd. and Chubb said they have received all necessary regulatory approvals and will close their $29.7 billion merger agreement today, Jan. 14 – six months after the companies first announced their surprise deal.The...
Jan 14 2016 // Marketers have long known that consumers react in a favorable way when products and services are given human attributes, or anthropomorphized, in their branding and advertising.Think of the Michelin Man. Allstate’s...
Jan 13 2016 // Brown & Brown Insurance Services of California Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired certain assets of San Francisco, Calif.-based BayRisk Insurance Brokers Inc. Following the transaction, the...
Jan 13 2016 // Wallace Welch & Willingham (W3) has acquired Sondregger Insurance, an independent agency based in St. Petersburg, Fla. The acquisition was made final on December 9, 2015.Sondregger Insurance specializes in personal and...
Jan 13 2016 // AssuredPartners Inc. announced that it has acquired the business of Archer A. Associates Insurance, an independent agency based in Franklin Square on Long Island, New York. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The...
Jan 13 2016 // French insurer CNP Assurances has entered exclusive talks with Grupo BTG Pactual SA to buy its 51 percent stake in Brazilian insurer Pan Seguros, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.CNP Assurances has...
Jan 12 2016 // Huntington Beach, Calif.-based Confie announced it has acquired the Duane Sammons Insurance Center Inc. of Bellingham, Wash. Duane Sammons has served the local community of Bellingham for 30 years and provides personal and...
Jan 12 2016 // About 15 state attorneys general have joined the Justice Department’s probe of two big insurance mergers, according to people familiar with the matter, increasing the scrutiny on proposed deals that would reduce the...
Jan 12 2016 // Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, has acquired Most Insurance, LLC of Tampa, Fla. Established by Bob Most in 1973, Most Insurance, LLC is a family owned and operated business. With...
Jan 11 2016 // R-T Specialty LLC (RT Specialty), the wholesale brokerage unit of Ryan Specialty Group LLC, has acquired the assets of Countrywide Brokerage, a wholesale insurance brokerage operation based in Edmonds, Wash.Established in...
Jan 11 2016 // Walsh Duffield Companies Inc., an independent insurance agency based in Buffalo, New York, announced that it has acquired Barry York Inc., an independent agency in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York....
Jan 11 2016 // Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, announced that it has acquired Fair Price Insurance Inc., a specialty auto insurance agency based in the Bronx, New York City. Terms of the...
Jan 11 2016 // Gregory M. Shepard, an activist investor who’s been a major stockholder of Pennsylvania-based Donegal Group and a frequent critic of the company, has sold off his shares.Shepard’s stake consisted of 3.675...