Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Lockton Partners with Cyber Risk Firm on Executive-Level Assessment Service
May 28 2015 // Dynetics, a provider of technology products, and the Washington, D.C. operations of Lockton Companies, have formed an alliance to provide Lockton clients direct access to QuickLook, an executive-level cyber risk assessment...
Marsh Appoints Wood as Southeast Partnership Leader in Atlanta
May 28 2015 // Julie Wood Marsh has appointed Julie Wood as Southeast Partnership leader based in Atlanta. In this role, Wood is responsible for ensuring the delivery of Marsh’s advisory and transactional services to clients...
Google Compare and ITC in Online Partnership That Brings Agents into Mix
May 27 2015 // Google Compare is using a rating system provided by Insurance Technologies Corp., the Carrollton, Texas-based software provider announced Wednesday. In making the announcement ITC’s top executive said it’s a...
Xuber Reinsurance Survey Focuses on Regulation and M&A
May 27 2015 // Many in the reinsurance industry feel the business is becoming over-regulated and London is getting expensive as the center of the industry Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, recently released its second...
