USI Acquires Austin-Based Employee Benefits Firm, Ball Peoples

USI Insurance Services (USI) has acquired Ball Peoples, an employee benefits advisory firm headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Since 1975, Ball Peoples has been providing employee benefits for clients throughout Central Texas and across the Southwest. The employees will remain at their Austin location.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

John D. Collado, USI Southwest regional chief executive officer, said Ball Peoples co-owners, Thomas H. Ball III and Daniel L. Peoples, and their team “will play an important role to further our employee benefits practice throughout the Southwest region.”

USI is headquartered in Valhalla, N.Y.

Source: USI