Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
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Hawaii Group Buys Hurricane Insurer Zephyr from Kingsway
Sep 11 2009 // Toronto-based Kingsway Financial Services Inc. has agreed to sell Zephyr Insurance Co., Inc. to Zephyr Acquisition Co., an acquisition vehicle of Ocean Harbor Holding Inc. and MP Holdings LLC, a Hawaiian based investor...
Aon, Partner Re Release Latest Hazard & Risk Review at Monte Carlo
Sep 9 2009 // Aon Benfield and PartnerRe have released their annual re/insurance industry report, Hazard & Risk Science Review 2009, which showcases the latest developments in the field of natural hazard and risk science. The...
AmWINS Acquires Group Benefits Unit from Willis HRH
Sep 9 2009 // Charlotte, North Carolina-based national wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group, Inc. has acquired The Managing Agency Group- Employee Benefits, a division of insurance broker Willis HRH. MAG-EB is a wholesale broker of...
Validus Completes IPC Acquisition
Sep 8 2009 // Bermuda-based Validus Holdings, Ltd. announced that it has completed its acquisition of IPC Holdings, Ltd., which Validus said, creates, “a leading carrier in the Bermuda short-tail reinsurance and insurance...
Aon Urges Ship Owners to Buy K&R Now, as Pirates Renew Attacks
Sep 4 2009 // A bulletin from Aon’s London office urges ship owners looking for kidnap and ransom coverage to “seek quotes now before an improvement in weather lures Somalian pirates back into the waters,” following a...
Willis Exec Sees Insurance M&A Activity Increase in 2010
Sep 4 2009 // The insurance industry will see a pickup in mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2010, according to Tony Ursano, CEO of Willis Capital Markets & Advisory, a unit of Willis Group Holdings. Ursano made his...
SureTec Financial to Buy Back HCC’s Interest in Company
Sep 1 2009 // Houston-based SureTec Financial Corp., sole owner of SureTec Insurance Company and other subsidiaries providing services to the construction and surety industries, announced plans to repurchase the 23.7 percent of SureTec...
Brown & Brown Acquires Benefits Unit of Roussel Agency of Tennessee
Aug 31 2009 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown has acquired the group employee benefits division of Roussel & Associates of Brentwood, Tennessee. The group employee benefits division, which has annualized revenues...
AmTrust to Buy Workers’ Compensation Unit CyberComp from Swiss Re
Aug 27 2009 // New York-based AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. has agreed to acquire CyberComp, the workers’ compensation business unit of Swiss Re, in a renewal rights transaction. Serving the workers’ compensation needs of...
Tennessee’s First Horizon to Acquire Sandlin Insurance Agency
Aug 27 2009 // First Horizon Insurance Group, Inc., a subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank, the principal subsidiary of First Horizon National Corp., reports it has agreed to acquire the insurance business of Sandlin Insurance Agency...
PartnerRe Files ‘Definitive Proxy Statement’ on PARIS RE Acquisition
Aug 25 2009 // Bermuda-based PartnerRe Ltd. Has filed a Definitive Proxy Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission announcing a Special General Meeting of PartnerRe shareholders on Thursday, September 24, 2009. This Special...
Caribbean Agencies Create Partnership for Natural Disaster Management
Aug 21 2009 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) formalizing a partnership to facilitate capacity...
Source Says Macquarie in Talks to Acquire Fox-Pitt Kelton
Aug 21 2009 // Australia’s Macquarie Group Ltd. is in talks to acquire Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller, a small investment bank owned by its management and private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co LLC, a person familiar...
Major Ohio County to Offer Benefits to Workers’ Domestic Partners
Aug 20 2009 // One of Ohio’s largest counties plans to offer health coverage to the partners of its gay and unmarried employees. Franklin County commissioners in Columbus voted unanimously on Aug. 18 to extend domestic partner...
M&A Activity Continues at a Snail’s Pace Compared to 2008
Aug 13 2009 // Insurance brokerage mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2009 was nearly half of what is was during the second quarter of 2008. Just 39 transactions were announced from April through June compared to last year...
Demetriou General Agency Acquires H. Al Roth Agency in New York
Aug 13 2009 // New York-based Demetriou General Agency Inc. has acquired H. Al Roth Agency in Manhattan for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition comes as Demetriou announced expansion plans for its Madison Avenue headquarters to...
Oak Street Funding Secures More Than $50M in New Capital
Aug 12 2009 // Oak Street Funding said it has secured more than $50 million in new capital from two major banks in an effort to expand opportunities for agents and brokers to borrow money to achieve their strategic goals. The new capital...
Delos and Avoca Launch Underwriting Partnership
Aug 10 2009 // Delos Insurance Group and Avoca Insurance Holdings have launched a joint venture focused on underwriting excess and specialty lines. The newly formed, Boston-based underwriting management company will be known as Naxos...
UMB Acquires St. Louis-based Chapman-Sander Insurance
Aug 7 2009 // UMB Financial Corporation affiliate UMB Scout Insurance Services Inc. is acquiring Chapman-Sander, an independently-owned insurance agency in St. Louis, Mo., in an all-cash deal, UMB announced. Details of the transaction...
Georgia Insurance Merger Firm M&A Wins Award Against Former Employee
Aug 5 2009 // Insurance industry merger consultant Merger & Acquisition Services, Inc. (M&A) reports that it has been awarded a $1.76 million judgment against a former officer of the company who kept M&A customer...
