All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 10 2014 // Regional insurance holding company, Texas-based Republic Group, announced it has sold of all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Republic Home Protectors Inc. (RHP) and Southern Vanguard Insurance Co. (SVIC) to...
Jan 10 2014 // AssuredPartners Inc., through its Dawson Companies platform, has acquired Leonard Insurance Services, an Ohio-based agency that specializes in commercial, personal, life and health insurance, employee benefits, financial...
Jan 10 2014 // Middletown, R.I.-based OceanPoint Insurance Agency announced that it has acquired Raymond Insurance of Coventry, R.I., to expand insurance services in the state’s West Bay area. Kim Raymond, principal of Raymond...
Jan 10 2014 // China’s Fosun International Ltd. bought 80 percent of Portugal’s Caixa Geral de Depositos SA’s insurance unit for €1 billion ($1.36 billion), beating out U.S. buyout firm Apollo Management International...
Jan 9 2014 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty insurance brokerage Alliant Insurance Services has acquired benefits brokerage Sagewell Partners in Pittsburgh. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Sagewell Partners...
Jan 9 2014 // Fine art insurance specialist AXA Art Americas Corporation (AXA ART) has formed a strategic business partnership with Trident Insurance Services, LLC, a member of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd., an international...
Jan 9 2014 // Encouraged by a vigorous period of insurance M&A activity in the second half of 2012, many in the industry had high expectations of robustness in 2013. It’s clear now that 2013 M&A activity did not reach the...
Jan 9 2014 // EPIC (Edgewood Partners Insurance Center), a retail property/casualty insurance brokerage and employee benefits consultant based in San Francisco, said it has acquired The McCart Group of Duluth, Georgia.The McCart Group...
Jan 9 2014 // San Diego, Calif.-based Align Financial Group LLC. has formed Catalytic Holdings LLC, a specialist property catastrophe underwriting manager, and Catalytic has acquired the property catastrophe business of Align General...
Jan 9 2014 // Willis Group Holdings announced that it has agreed to acquire Charles Monat Limited, a life insurance solutions adviser to high net worth clients. Willis said: “Charles Monat Limited has placed over US$13 billion in...
Jan 8 2014 // Paty Daves has been appointed managing partner at Willis of Illinois, retail insurance broker, Willis North America (WNA), announced. In this role, Daves will oversee business operations in Willis’ Chicago,...
Jan 8 2014 // Cleveland-based CBIZ Inc. announced that it acquired substantially all the assets of Centric Insurance Agency in New Providence, New Jersey, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Established in 1994, Centric Insurance Agency is an...
Jan 7 2014 // The Segal Group announced it has acquired a portion of the business of Moroni Fantin, an employee benefits consulting firm located in the Detroit, Mich.-area.Moroni Fantin specializes in working with Michigan and national,...
Jan 7 2014 // The Lucien Wright Insurance Agency announced it has purchased the Paul Lowe Agency in Arlington, Texas, effective Dec. 17, 2013.The Paul Lowe Agency represents several national carriers and specializes in personal...
Jan 7 2014 // Insureon, an online insurance delivery platform for small business owners, said it has agreed to acquire Insurance Noodle, an online wholesale insurance broker, from Willis Group Holdings. The transaction is expected to...
Jan 7 2014 // The Hilb Group, LLC said it has acquired Hockman Insurance Agency Inc. of Tampa, Florida. The transaction was effective January 1, 2014. Terms were not disclosed. Hockman Insurance will continue to operate at its current...
Jan 7 2014 // Marsh Inc. (UK) announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Aberdeen-based Central Insurance Services, the leading independent insurance broker in Scotland. The transaction is anticipated to close later...
Jan 6 2014 // NSM Insurance Group, a national insurance program administrator based in Conshohocken, Penn., announced its acquisition of American Collectors Insurance in Cherry Hill, N.J. NSM Insurance Group said the acquisition of...
Jan 6 2014 // In two announcements, AmTrust Financial Services said it would acquire renewals rights for Tower Group International’s commercial lines business for $125 million, and Tower said it entered into a $172 million merger...
Jan 3 2014 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the insurance agency business of certain member firms operating as Pinnacle Insurance Partners (Pinnacle), a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based full-service...