All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 31 2010 // The Hanover Insurance Group Inc. is expanding the services it provides within its management liability practice.The new services include a partnership with Jackson Lewis, an employment practices and labor relations firm,...
Mar 31 2010 // Equity Risk Partners (ERP), an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused on the needs of the private equity industry, has announced the addition of Rhonda Rayha-Teegarden as director of marketing – Property...
Mar 29 2010 // Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has agreed to acquire substantially all of the insurance brokerage business of FirstCity Partnership Ltd. of London, England. The transaction is expected to close in April 2010....
Mar 25 2010 // Thomas E. Riley has been promoted to chief acquisitions officer for Brown & Brown Inc. and will assume responsibility for mergers and acquisitions activity of the company and its subsidiaries, and for the supervision...
Mar 23 2010 // 21st Century Holding Co. has agreed to acquire HomeWise Insurance Co. and HomeWise Management Co. from HomeWise Holdings Inc.The agreement also includes renewal rights to certain insurance policies from HomeWise Preferred...
Mar 19 2010 // Aon Consulting, the benefits consulting business of Aon Corp., has agreed to acquire J.P. Morgan Compensation and Benefit Strategies, a division of J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services, LLC.J.P. Morgan Compensation and...
Mar 19 2010 // Brown & Brown Inc. will acquire New Jersey-based Excel Underwriters Alliance Inc. and Spirit Underwriters Inc., the Florid-based brokerage announced.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Excel and Spirit offer...
Mar 18 2010 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Winn & Company Insurance Brokers Inc. in Hollister, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Established in 1910, Winn & Company is a retail insurance broker...
Mar 17 2010 // In a move that accelerates its national growth, Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., has acquired Thomas Rutherfoord, Inc., the country’s 14th largest privately-held...
Mar 16 2010 // Independent insurance and financial services brokerage firm, Higginbotham & Associates, has engaged EnRisk Services, an insurance broker and risk manager for the energy industry, to supplement its existing Energy...
Mar 15 2010 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced that it has priced, through its indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary PartnerRe Finance B LLC, $500 million of 10-year fixed rate 5.50 percent Senior Notes, pursuant to its currently...
Mar 12 2010 // Having flood insurance will be increasingly important this year as spring rain combines in many parts of the U.S. with the melting of record snowfall, according to the Insurance Information Institute.“Many states on...
Mar 12 2010 // USI Holdings Corp. has reported the closing of the acquisition of the insurance and financial services business of RA Bench, a Seattle, Washington, based wealth management, executive and group employee benefit insurance...
Mar 11 2010 // Markel has renewed its partnership with the Independent Garage & Towing Contractors, Inc. (IGTC) to administer a tailored insurance program for tow truck companies and to work with local agents to arrange an insurance...
Mar 11 2010 // The UK’s RSA Insurance Group announced that its Danish subsidiary Codan Forsikring A/S has acquired the renewal rights to TrygVesta’s marine hull portfolio for DKK 50 million [app; £6 million – $9...
Mar 9 2010 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd has issued preliminary estimates of expected claims from the earthquake in Chile and European Windstorm Xynthia.Total insured industry losses from the M8.8 earthquake in Chile, which hit on...
Mar 8 2010 // Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. and Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Zenith National Insurance Corp. have entered into a merger agreement in which Fairfax will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Zenith...
Mar 8 2010 // AIG is selling its foreign life insurance unit to MetLife Inc. for about $15.5 billion, its second major asset sale in a week as it raises funds to repay a massive U.S. government bailout.MetLife said Monday that it would...
Mar 7 2010 // February was a short month, but a deadly one. In addition to a massive earthquake in Chile, the Northeastern U.S. was hit by three blizzards; floods and mudslides ravaged the Portuguese island of Madeira and beleaguered...
Mar 5 2010 // New York insurance law firm Anderson Kill & Olick, has named Larry Kill as chair of its Corporate & Commercial Litigation practice.Kill has represented clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation, with...