All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 28 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired 100 percent of the capital stock of Strathearn Insurance Group Pty Ltd., headquartered in Perth, Australia. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1993, Strathearn...
Dec 23 2015 // 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 Tuesday, according to securities...
Dec 23 2015 // Real estate information provider CoreLogic is buying Oxford, Miss.-based FNC Inc. for $475 million.CoreLogic, based in Irvine, Calif., announced the purchase Dec. 17, saying it wants to integrate FNC’s real estate...
Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Managed Healthcare Solutions, Inc. in Atlanta. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 2000, Managed HealthCare Solutions (MHS) provides employee benefit...
Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired The Hawk Agency Inc. in Peoria, Ill.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thomas D. Fliege and his associates at The Hawk Agency will continue to operate in their current location...
Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Brown Hobbs & McMurray Insurance in Urbana, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1859, Brown Hobbs & McMurray (BHM) is a retail insurance broker...
Dec 21 2015 // Cross Insurance, an independent insurance agency based in Bangor, Maine, with more than 35 offices in the Northeast, announced the purchase of Boston-based independent agency Knapp Schenck & Company. Terms of the...
Dec 21 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Brown Hobbs & McMurray Insurance in Urbana, Ill.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thomas Brown, Paul Hobbs, William Hobbs, Dick and Rich McMurray, and their associates...
Dec 21 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform announced that M&A underwriter Astrid O’Reilly is relocating from Singapore to London as the company looks to strengthen the M&A product offering within the...
Dec 21 2015 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, Partner Reinsurance Europe SE, has been granted a license from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to operate as an Authorized Firm in the Dubai...
Dec 18 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Inc. has acquired certain assets of Ocean Marine Insurance Agency Inc., Ocean Marine Insurance Agency of Massachusetts...
Dec 18 2015 // Zurich Insurance Group AG agreed to buy a Wells Fargo & Co. crop insurance business for as much as $1.05 billion as the Swiss company puts to work excess cash left over from a separate takeover bid that it abandoned...
Dec 18 2015 // Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that, following receipt of regulatory approvals from the FINMA the Swiss financial regulator, it has completed its acquisition of Allianz Suisse Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG...
Dec 17 2015 // Eastern Insurance Group in Natick, Massachusetts, announced that it has acquired Northwestern Benefit Associates, an independent group benefits broker based in Boston, from the broker’s parent company Northwestern...
Dec 17 2015 // Specialty MGA, Nexus Underwriting Management Limited, announced that it has acquired City of London based Millstream Underwriting Limited, an independent managing general agency specializing in travel personal accident and...
Dec 16 2015 // Chestnut Hill Insurance Group, an independent property/casualty insurance agency in Chepachet, Rhode Island, announced that it has acquired Rotatori Insurance, an independent P/C agency also based in Chepachet. Terms of...
Dec 15 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Centennial Insurance Agency LLC based in Pueblo, Colo.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mark Swanson, David Swanson, Doug Helzer, Tom Ratzlaff and their team will continue to...
Dec 15 2015 // Global insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro Insurance Brokers Holdings Ltd. announced that it has acquired London-based Entertainment Insurance Partners Limited (EIP), the parent company of Robertson Taylor...
Dec 14 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform announced the appointment of Robert Brown as the Global Practice Leader of its Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Insurance operations.He joins to lead the team of...
Dec 11 2015 // Great American Insurance Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has launched a new Mergers & Acquisitions Liability Division.This unit, which is based in New York, will offer primary and excess representations and...