Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires The Hawk Agency in Illinois
Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired The Hawk Agency Inc. in Peoria, Ill. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thomas D. Fliege and his associates at The Hawk Agency will continue to operate in their current...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Brown Hobbs & McMurray Insurance
Dec 22 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Brown Hobbs & McMurray Insurance in Urbana, Ill. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1859, Brown Hobbs & McMurray (BHM) is a retail insurance broker...
Cross Insurance Acquires Knapp Schenck & Company in Boston
Dec 21 2015 // Cross Insurance, an independent insurance agency based in Bangor, Maine, with more than 35 offices in the Northeast, announced the purchase of Boston-based independent agency Knapp Schenck & Company. Terms of the...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Brown Hobbs & McMurray in Illinois
Dec 21 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Brown Hobbs & McMurray Insurance in Urbana, Ill. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thomas Brown, Paul Hobbs, William Hobbs, Dick and Rich McMurray, and their associates...
Marketform M&A Underwriter O’Reilly Moves to London as Sector Expands
Dec 21 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform announced that M&A underwriter Astrid O’Reilly is relocating from Singapore to London as the company looks to strengthen the M&A product offering within the...
PartnerRe Establishes Branch Office in Dubai
Dec 21 2015 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. announced that its subsidiary, Partner Reinsurance Europe SE, has been granted a license from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to operate as an Authorized Firm in the Dubai...
Brown & Brown Acquires Ocean Marine Insurance Agency & Affiliates in R.I.
Dec 18 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown Insurance Agency of Virginia Inc. has acquired certain assets of Ocean Marine Insurance Agency Inc., Ocean Marine Insurance Agency of Massachusetts...
Zurich Insurance to Buy Wells Fargo Crop Insurance Unit
Dec 18 2015 // Zurich Insurance Group AG agreed to buy a Wells Fargo & Co. crop insurance business for as much as $1.05 billion as the Swiss company puts to work excess cash left over from a separate takeover bid that it abandoned...
Catalina Completes Allianz Suisse Re Acquisition
Dec 18 2015 // Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that, following receipt of regulatory approvals from the FINMA the Swiss financial regulator, it has completed its acquisition of Allianz Suisse Ruckversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG...
Eastern Insurance Group Acquires Northwestern Benefit in Boston
Dec 17 2015 // Eastern Insurance Group in Natick, Massachusetts, announced that it has acquired Northwestern Benefit Associates, an independent group benefits broker based in Boston, from the broker’s parent company Northwestern...
Specialty MGA Nexus Underwriting Acquires Millstream
Dec 17 2015 // Specialty MGA, Nexus Underwriting Management Limited, announced that it has acquired City of London based Millstream Underwriting Limited, an independent managing general agency specializing in travel personal accident and...
Rhode Island’s Chestnut Hill Acquires Rotatori Insurance
Dec 16 2015 // Chestnut Hill Insurance Group, an independent property/casualty insurance agency in Chepachet, Rhode Island, announced that it has acquired Rotatori Insurance, an independent P/C agency also based in Chepachet. Terms of...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Centennial Insurance Agency in Colorado
Dec 15 2015 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Centennial Insurance Agency LLC based in Pueblo, Colo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Mark Swanson, David Swanson, Doug Helzer, Tom Ratzlaff and their team will continue to...
Integro Acquires UK’s Entertainment Insurance Partners Limited
Dec 15 2015 // Global insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro Insurance Brokers Holdings Ltd. announced that it has acquired London-based Entertainment Insurance Partners Limited (EIP), the parent company of Robertson Taylor...
Brown Named Marketform’s M&A Insurance Global Practice Leader
Dec 14 2015 // Specialist Lloyd’s underwriter Marketform announced the appointment of Robert Brown as the Global Practice Leader of its Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Insurance operations. He joins to lead the team of...
Great American Insurance Launches M&A Liability Division in New York
Dec 11 2015 // Great American Insurance Group, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has launched a new Mergers & Acquisitions Liability Division. This unit, which is based in New York, will offer primary and excess representations and...
Brown & Brown Acquires Assets of Smith Insurance in Connecticut
Dec 11 2015 // Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its subsidiary Brown & Brown of Connecticut Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Smith Insurance, an independent agency based in Niantic, Connecticut. Terms of...
Towers Watson and Willis Shareholders Approve $8.9 Billion Merger Deal
Dec 11 2015 // Towers Watson & Co. won approval from its shareholders for an $8.9 billion merger with insurance broker Willis Group Holdings Plc, overcoming opposition from proxy advisers. Willis shareholders also supported the...
U.S. Risk Announces Acquisition of Matias Underwriters, LLC.
Dec 10 2015 // Names Glenn Matias National Practice Leader and Vice President for the Workers Compensation Divisions of U.S. Risk Underwriters, Inc. Dallas, TX, December 10, 2015- U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc., the nations’ sixth...
Associates of Glens Falls Insurance Acquires Loomis & LaPann in New York
Dec 9 2015 // Associates of Glens Falls Insurance, an independent agency in Glens Falls, New York, announced that it has acquired Loomis & LaPann Inc., an insurance brokerage unit of regional commercial bank Glens Falls National...
