Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
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Brown & Brown to Acquire Risk Strategies, One80 Parent for $9.8 Billion
Jun 10 2025 // Brown & Brown Inc. said it has entered into an agreement to buy Accession Risk Management, the parent company of specialty brokerage firm Risk Strategies and wholesaler One80 Intermediaries, for about $9.8...
Unison Risk Advisors Acquires Boutique Hatcher Insurance Agency in Orlando
Jun 10 2025 // The Orlando-based boutique agency and brokerage Hatcher Insurance is now part of Unison Risk Advisors, Unison announced this week. Hatcher, founded almost 80 years ago, offers property and liability insurance, surety...
Howden Acquires Peruvian Reinsurance Broker Innova Re
Jun 9 2025 // Howden, the London-based insurance intermediary group, announced it has acquired Innova Re, a market leading, independent reinsurance broker headquartered in Lima. Financial details of this deal were not...
Hub International Acquires Wycoff Insurance Agency in Washington
Jun 6 2025 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Wycoff Insurance Agency Inc. in Mount Vernon, Washington. Wycoff Insurance will be referred to as Wycoff Insurance Agency, a Hub International company. Chris Eisses, president,...
Monarch E&S Acquires Market Finders in New Mexico
Jun 5 2025 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services acquired Market Finders Inc. in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MFI is a managing general agent and wholesale broker founded in 1971. MFI specializes in both personal and commercial lines,...
Howden Acquires Granular Investments for Credit Risk Transfer Capabilities
Jun 5 2025 // Howden, the global insurance intermediary group, today announces the acquisition of Granular Investments Limited and Granular Investments EU SAS. This transaction strengthens Howden’s credit risk transfer...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Wilkins & Associates in Nevada
Jun 4 2025 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today acquired Reno, Nevada-based Wilkins & Associates Insurance Services Inc. Steve Wilkins, Jared Wilkins and their team will operate under the direction of Scott Firestone, head of...
Triple-I: New Research Suggest Link Between Litigation Funding, Attorney Ads
Jun 4 2025 // According to research from the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), legal service providers spent more than $2.5 billion on 26.9 million ads in 2024 alone—with significant increases in television, radio and outdoor...
Stonetrust Insurance Credit Ratings Unchanged Amid Acquisition of Southern Vanguard
Jun 3 2025 // AM Best said that the Credit Ratings (ratings) of Southern Vanguard Insurance Company (Southern Vanguard) (Austin, Texas) and the members of Stonetrust Insurance Group (Stonetrust) (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) remain unchanged...
Risk Strategies Acquires Missouri’s Schroeder Insurance
Jun 3 2025 // Risk Strategies announced it has acquired Schroeder Insurance, a Missouri-based firm with a specialty focus in the commercial lines and private client sectors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Led by brothers Paul and...
InterWest Acquires Armstrong & Associates Insurance Services
Jun 3 2025 // InterWest Insurance Services has acquired Armstrong & Associates Insurance Services in California. Martin Armstrong will remain in a leadership role, with all employees coming over to InterWest. Founded in 2004,...
Funding Cuts Threaten Safety Training for Workers in America’s Most Dangerous Jobs
Jun 2 2025 // By the time Robbie Roberge spotted the fire consuming his boat’s galley last August, he knew he had just minutes to evacuate his beloved Three Girls fishing vessel, named for his daughters. As the flames spread up...
Johnson & Johnson to Acquire Indemnity Excess & Surplus Agency Inc.
Jun 2 2025 // CHARLESTON, SC., June 02, 2025 – Johnson & Johnson Inc. (J&J) continues the expansion of its footprint by acquiring the assets of Indemnity Excess & Surplus Agency Inc (IES). The parties completed the...
AM Best Upgrades Velocity Specialty Insurance After Acquisition by FM
Jun 2 2025 // AM Best has removed from under review with developing implications and upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a”...
Q1 Has Lowest Insurance Agency M&A in 5 Years; Mega Deals Coming?
Jun 2 2025 // The first three months of 2025 were the slowest quarter for insurance agency mergers and acquisitions since Q2 2020, according to investment banking and financial consulting firm OPTIS Partners. The total number of...
Industry Vets Bonneau and Bredahl Form Novel Financial, Acquire Forza Insurance
May 30 2025 // The former chief executives of Partner Re and Howden Tiger are joining two other industry veterans to form a company, which they describe as “an independent holding company that oversees carriers supporting managing...
Definity Financial to Buy Travelers Cos.’ Canadian Operations for $2.4 Billion
May 28 2025 // Travelers Cos. said on Tuesday it has agreed to sell its Canadian personal insurance business and majority of its commercial insurance operations in the country to Definity Financial in a deal valued at $2.4 billion. The...
Skyla Insurance Acquires Policyline, Names Ricks President
May 28 2025 // Charlotte-based Skyla Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Skyla Credit Union, has acquired Policyline Insurance, an employee benefits and insurance brokerage in the Carolinas. The acquisition strengthens Skyla’s...
Shareholders of Swiss Insurers Helvetia and Baloise Approve Merger
May 23 2025 // The shareholders of the Swiss insurers Helvetia Holding Ltd. and Baloise Holding Ltd. approved the merger to form Helvetia Baloise Holding Ltd., at their respective extraordinary general meetings. Upon the closing of the...
COVU Acquires Texas’ Uno Insurance Services
May 23 2025 // COVU, Inc., an AI-native customer servicing platform for the insurance industry announced the acquisition of Uno Insurance Services, a fast-growing Texas-based agency with a stronghold in Houston’s Spanish-speaking...
