Berkshire Hathaway’s $11.6 billion acquisition of Alleghany Corp. was the largest insurance transaction in 2022 but insurance M&A activity dropped this year, according to an S&P Global Market Intelligence analysis. As of the end of November, there were 685 deals …
Prepared Holdings, LLC, the holding company for Prepared Insurance Co., has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Meridian Insurance Holdings, Inc., a private investment group, under which Prepared will be acquired by Meridian. It is anticipated that Meridian will …
Year-to-date through June 20, the insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market witnessed 160 deal announcements, compared to 134 deals over the same period of 2013 — an increase of roughly 20 percent, according to SNL Financial. SNL said 34 insurance …
After a slowdown following the 2008 financial crisis, the volume of insurance mergers and acquisitions should increase over the next one to three years, according to North American insurance executives. A sizable 86 percent of those executives participating in a …
Mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies fell in 2013, with 248 reported transactions in the United States and Canada, according to a new semi-annual survey by OPTIS Partners, an investment banking and financial consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry. …
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group in Boston announced the company’s entry into Malaysia’s $4.6 billion non-life insurance market with its planned acquisition of a 68.9 percent stake in Uni.Asia General Insurance Berhad for approximately $113 million. The transaction is subject to …
CNA Financial Corp. said it is selling its life and group insurance business, Continental Assurance Co., to a subsidiary of Wilton Re Holdings Ltd. CNA said it expected net proceeds of about $615 million from the sale and a portion …
Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc. said KKR & Co. LLP and company management would buy the provider of claims services for $2.4 billion, the latest in a wave of private-equity activity in the growing industry. A rising number of claims …
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 levels of 2012 …
Medical professional liability insurer ProAssurance Corp. said it is acquiring monoline workers’ compensation insurer Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. in an all-cash transaction that values Eastern at $24.50 per share. Eastern will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ProAssurance. The transaction, with …
