Canopius Group Ltd. News

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Plans to Buy 15% Stake in French Reinsurer SCOR

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings Inc. will buy a 15 percent stake in French reinsurer SCOR SE in potentially its biggest investment abroad amid diminishing opportunities for growth at home. The insurer will initially buy 7.8 percent from Swiss fund Patinex …

Sompo Japan to Buy UK Insurer Canopius in Overseas Expansion Drive

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., a unit of Japan’s third-largest casualty insurer group by market value, confirmed earlier reports that it will buy Canopius Group Ltd. of the U.K. for 99.2 billion yen ($963 million) as it expands beyond its aging …

Sompo Japan Considers Acquisition of U.K.’s Canopius Group

Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., a unit of Japan’s third-largest casualty insurer group by market value, is considering buying the U.K.’s Canopius Group Ltd. as it continues an overseas expansion. The acquisition is under review, and no decision has been made, …