Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines

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Hudson Insurance Acquires Euclid Managers of Kansas City

Jun 4 2015 // Hudson Insurance Co. (Hudson) has acquired Euclid Managers LLC of Kansas City, Mo. (Euclid-KC) from Euclid Insurance Services Inc. and Euclid-KC’s management. Euclid-KC is an underwriting and claims manager for...

Kansas-Based Infinity Insurance Solutions Acquired by Patriot National

Jun 4 2015 // Patriot National Inc., headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has acquired Infinity Insurance Solutions, a premium auditing and underwriting survey agency based in Overland Park, Kan. Infinity serves providers of...

AssuredPartners Acquires Indianapolis’ CoLiance Risk Advisors

Jun 4 2015 // Lake Mary, Fla.-based AssuredPartners Inc. has acquired CoLiance Risk Advisors through its AssuredPartners of Indiana subsidiary. The Indianapolis-based agency will operate under the local leadership of Managing Director...

Hub Acquires Assets of Shofner, Lynch & Shulse in New Mexico

Jun 4 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of New Mexico-based Shofner, Lynch & Shulse. SLS will become part of the operations of Hub International New Mexico, which is based in Albuquerque. SLS will maintain its...

EXOR Files Suit to Get PartnerRe’s Shareholder List; Takeover Battle Heats Up

Jun 4 2015 // EXOR, the Turin, Italy-based investment company and a suitor in the ongoing takeover battle of PartnerRe, filed a lawsuit on June 1 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda, seeking to obtain PartnerRe’s list of shareholders...

Risk Strategies Acquires Dubraski & Associates in California

Jun 3 2015 // Risk Strategies Co. has acquired San Diego, Calif.-based Dubraski & Associates Insurance Services, a national brokerage and consulting firm that provides risk and insurance solutions to the healthcare...

Hub Acquires Assets of Lovsted-Worthington in Washington

Jun 3 2015 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of Lovsted-Worthington Insurance, which serves Seattle and Western Washington. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LW will become part of the Hub International Northwest...

ITC Acquires Rater Multico-Online in Washington

Jun 3 2015 // Insurance Technologies Corp., a provider of marketing, rating and management software and services, has acquired Multico-Online from Multico Rating Systems Inc., a large Seattle, Wash.-based comparative rating vendor. The...

Alliant Acquires Mary Roach Insurance Agency in California

Jun 3 2015 // Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant Insurance Services has acquired Mary Roach Insurance Agency Inc., a provider of crop insurance to the agribusiness community headquarter in Fresno. Mary Roach will be instrumental in...

Confie Acquires Colyer Insurance in San Antonio

Jun 2 2015 // National personal lines insurance specialist, Confie, has acquired Colyer Insurance Agency Inc. of San Antonio, Texas. Colyer Insurance has been part of the San Antonio community for over 35 years providing personal...

Swiss Re Targets Nigerian Acquisition, Seeking to Tap African Growth Rates

Jun 2 2015 // Swiss Re AG, which has had an African presence for more than 60 years, said it’s in talks with Nigerian insurers to buy minority stakes and benefit from growth in the continent’s largest...

Confie Seguros Acquires 2 Brokerages in New York

Jun 2 2015 // Confie Seguros, a national provider of personal lines insurance based in Huntington Beach, California, announced that it has acquired two insurance brokerages in New York State, including its first location in New York...

Shareholders to Vote on Proposed Merger of AXIS Capital, PartnerRe on July 24

Jun 2 2015 // AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. and PartnerRe Ltd. have scheduled special shareholder meetings to vote on the proposed merger of AXIS Capital and PartnerRe. AXIS Capital’s special meeting of shareholders in connection...

Marsh to Acquire UK-Based Broker, SME Insurance Services

Jun 2 2015 // Marsh announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire SME Insurance Services (SMEi), a UK independent broker which provides specialist commercial insurance to small and medium-sized enterprises. Terms of the...

Marsh Acquires Texas-Based MHBT

Jun 1 2015 // Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), a subsidiary of Marsh LLC, has acquired Dallas, Texas-based MHBT Inc., one of the nation’s largest independent insurance brokers. Terms of the transaction were not...

Willis Acquires Evolution Benefits Consulting in Pennsylvania

Jun 1 2015 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, announced its acquisition of Evolution Benefits Consulting, a Malvern, Pennsylvania-based health and welfare benefit advisory firm. Terms of the transaction were...

China Broker Says Clients Can No Longer Borrow to Buy Ping An Shares

Jun 1 2015 // The brokerage unit of Chinese financial firm Shenwan Hongyuan Group Co Ltd will stop lending money to clients to buy shares in Ping An Insurance Group, the latest move in China’s drive to tighten margin financing...

The Market Cycle and Acquisitions

Jun 1 2015 // Every reader likely already knows interest rates are rock bottom. Some are even nominally negative and the prime rate has not changed in six years. That is a record! Exposure growth overall is normal, neither strong nor...

N.J. Gov. Christie Marks 300th Home Acquired Under Post-Sandy Program

May 29 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Wednesday more than 300 homes have now been acquired by the state under a post-Superstorm Sandy buyout program, as he blasted other homeowners for refusing to give the state the right to...

Fosun’s Equity Deals to Intensify as It Seeks to Fund Acquisition Ambitions

May 29 2015 // A $1.2 billion share sale by Fosun International Ltd. this month was likely only the start of a love affair with equity deals, bankers say, as the Chinese conglomerate seeks to cut reliance on debt to fund its huge...