Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.

TigerRisk Names Ridpath a Partner in Casualty Practice

Jan 6 2021 // Broker/adviser TigerRisk announced it has appointed Glyn Ridpath a partner in the company’s fast-growing Casualty Practice. Based in London, he will report to James Few, TigerRisk’s CEO UK. Ridpath started his...

Charles Taylor Acquires Wisconsin TPA, Insurance Management Firm Aegis

Jan 6 2021 // Charles Taylor, a technology products and services to the global insurance market, has acquired Aegis Corp. (Aegis), a Wisconsin-based provider of mutual management and third party claims administration. Aegis provides...

FEMA Buys $1.153 Billion of Reinsurance for Flood Insurance Program for 2021

Jan 6 2021 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has once again procured private sector reinsurance from more than 30 carriers for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to protect the government program from large...

Platinum Specialty Underwriters Acquires IPC in Nevada

Jan 5 2021 // Platinum Specialty Underwriters has acquired International Property & Casualty Insurance Brokers of Nevada Inc. IPC will continue to operate under its established brand name. Terms of the deal weren’t...

Top International Insurance M&As of 2020

Jan 5 2021 // Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger became the leading merger and non-merger insurance story of the entire year. But there were also other proposed and completed transactions that caught...

Top East Region Insurance M&As of 2020

Jan 5 2021 // The top M&A story of 2020 was a global story that captured more readers in every geographic region than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained the leading merger and...

Top South Central Region Insurance M&As of 2020

Jan 5 2021 // The top M&A story of 2020 was more a global than national story but it captured more readers in every geographic location than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained...

Top Midwest Region Insurance M&As of 2020

Jan 5 2021 // The top M&A story of 2020 was more a global than national story but it captured more readers in every geographic location than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained...

Top National Insurance M&As of 2020

Jan 5 2021 // The top M&A story of 2020 was more a global than national story but it captured more readers in every geographic location than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained...

Top West Region Insurance M&As of 2020

Jan 5 2021 // The top M&A story of 2020 was more a global than national story but it captured more readers in every geographic location than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained...

Top Southeast Region Insurance M&As of 2020

Jan 5 2021 // The top M&A story of 2020 was more a global than national story but it captured more readers in every geographic location than any other. Since it was first announced in March, the proposed Aon-Willis merger remained...

Judge Rules Former Viacom Shareholders Can Sue Over ViacomCBS Merger

Jan 5 2021 // A Delaware judge ruled this week that former Viacom shareholders may pursue a lawsuit accusing Shari Redstone of engineering a “patently unfair” merger that created ViacomCBS Inc. so she could become a media...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Ashton Tiffany in Arizona

Jan 5 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Phoenix, Ariz.-based Ashton Tiffany LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ashton Tiffany founders John Ashton and Michael Tiffany, Jr., and their associates, will continue to...

PHLY Acquires Staffing Insurance Business from World Wide Specialty Programs

Jan 5 2021 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) has acquired the Staffing Insurance Business offered by World Wide Specialty Programs Inc., based in Melville, N.Y. World Wide will operate as a division of PHLY and assume...

World Insurance Associates Acquires R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency

Jan 5 2021 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency Inc. of North Attleboro, Mass., on December 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency Inc. was...

UK Broker Specialist Risk Group Acquires KBIS British Equestrian Insurance

Jan 5 2021 // Specialist Risk Group (SRG), a London-based specialist insurance broker, announced it has acquired KBIS British Equestrian Insurance, a well-established broker within the equestrian market. Financial details of the...

UK-Based BMS Group Launches Asia Broking Operations with M&A Insurance Focus

Jan 5 2021 // BMS Group Ltd., the London-based independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, announced the launch of its Asia broking operations, headquartered in Singapore and with proposed operations in Hong Kong, pending...

Brown & Brown Acquires Assets of Ohio’s Berry Insurance Group

Jan 4 2021 // Brown & Brown of Ohio LLC, a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc., has acquired substantially all of the assets of Berry Insurance Group, based in Ohio. Founded in 2002 by Mark Berry, Berry Insurance Group has grown to...

Global Risk Solutions Acquires Texas’ Tailored Adjustment Services

Jan 4 2021 // Global Risk Solutions Inc., a provider of property/casualty claims, environmental risk management and complex claims products and services, has acquired Tailored Adjustment Services Inc., based in Colleyville,...

CBIZ Acquires New Jersey’s Borden Perlman Insurance Agency

Jan 4 2021 // CBIZ Inc., a provider of financial, insurance and advisory services, has acquired Borden Perlman Insurance Agency Inc. (BP) of Ewing, N.J., effective December 31, 2020. Founded more than 100 years ago, BP is a fourth...