Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
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First Security Shareholders Approve Wells Fargo Merger
Aug 1 2000 // Under the terms of the agreement, approved by the boards of both companies, First Security stockholders will receive 0.355 of a share of Wells Fargo common stock in exchange for each share of First Security common stock....
ReliaStar Shareholders Approve ING Acquisition
Jul 28 2000 // ReliaStar Financial Corp. shareholders have approved the proposed acquisition of ReliaStar Financial and its family of companies by ING Groep N.V., a global integrated financial services company based in Amsterdam. As...
MARKETSCOUT SECURES FUNDING
Jul 24 2000 // MarketScout, a Dallas-based e-commerce company specializing in the distribution of property and casualty insurance products, has received funding from High Ridge Capital Partners. MarketScout provides independent insurance...
Travelers To Buy Reliance Middle-Market Account
Jul 24 2000 // Travelers Insurance has reached an agreement in principle with Reliance Group Holdings to purchase the renewal rights to a portion of Reliance Insurance Group’s commercial lines middle-market book of...
Zurich Buys Stake in Anglo SA Eagle
Jul 20 2000 // Anglo American sold its 25 percent stake in SA Eagle Insurance Co. Wednesday to Zurich Financial Services for $56 million cash. Zurich already holds a controlling 58 percent of Eagle. The deal is part of Anglo...
Ilife.com Sells Insurance Unit
Jul 20 2000 // Ilife.com announced today the sale of its online insurance business, Professional Direct Agency Inc. (Pivot), to a financial services institution for $4.35 million in cash. “We are on the steady path to...
Lloyd’s of London Sells Aviation Unit to Charles Taylor
Jul 19 2000 // Charles Taylor Group has acquired the business of Lloyd’s Aviation, the second largest of its kind in the London market with 30 percent of business volumes for $3.89 million. The deal is a further step in the...
London American Announces Acquisition of WSIB
Jul 18 2000 // Effective July 1, San Diego-based London American General Agency acquired WSIB, a wholesale brokerage that specializes in the motor sports and transportation area. The WSIB motor sports program offers coverage specifically...
MarketScout Secures Investor Funding
Jul 18 2000 // MarketScout, a Dallas-based e-commerce company specializing in the distribution of property and casualty insurance products, has received funding from High Ridge Capital Partners. MarketScout provides independent insurance...
Royal Bank, CGNU Insurance Agree On Joint Venture
Jul 17 2000 // Royal Bank of Scotland said on Monday it would form a joint venture with British insurer CGNU Plc involving the insurance businesses of Royal Bank and its recent acquisition, NatWest. Royal Bank said CGNU would pay $900...
Wilmington Partners with Zurich U.S.
Jul 17 2000 // Wilmington Insurance Company, the only wholly owned minority property and casualty insurer in the U.S., announced it has entered into an agreement with Zurich U.S. The agreement will provide rail insurance buyers,...
Sky Financial Completes Acquisition of Meyer & Eckenrode
Jul 14 2000 // Sky Financial Group has completed the acquisition of Meyer & Eckenrode Insurance Group, a full service insurance agency providing a wide array of property, casualty, surety, professional liability, health, life and...
Kemper Solutions Aligns with Castlebridge Partners
Jul 13 2000 // Kemper Solutions has entered into a strategic alliance with Castlebridge Partners to jointly develop risk management products and services that combine insurance and capital market features. Kemper Solutions, a unit of...
Old Kent Acquires Kehoe-Nedrud Agency
Jul 11 2000 // Old Kent Insurance Group has acquired the Kehoe-Nedrud Agency, a privately owned agency based in Kalamazoo, Mich. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. “This acquisition affords Old Kent Insurance Group continued...
Vesta Insurance Group Completes $25 Million Acquisition of American Founders Financial Corporation
Jul 10 2000 // Vesta Insurance Group has acquired a controlling interest in American Founders Financial Corporation. The transaction will be immediately accretive to Vesta’s third-quarter earnings per share. According to previously...
Hibbs-Hallmark & Co. Acquires Assets of Lambert Fenchurch from Richard Kerr
Jul 10 2000 // Hibbs-Hallmark & Co. of Tyler has assumed the assets and client base of the former Lambert Fenchurch of Texas from Richard Kerr Acquisitions for an undisclosed amount. Kerr acquired the Texas retail insurance...
OVERSEAS TO BUY RELIANCE RE
Jul 10 2000 // Bermuda-based Overseas Partners Ltd (OPL) has agreed to acquire Reliance Reinsurance Co. from Reliance Insurance Co., but will not assume the existing liabilities of either company. The amount paid by OPL has not been...
OPL TO BUY RELIANCE RE
Jul 10 2000 // Bermuda-based Overseas Partners Ltd. (OPL) has agreed to acquire Reliance Reinsurance Company from Reliance Insurance Co., but will not assume the existing liabilities of either company. The amount paid by OPL hasn’t...
Australian Westpac Eyes Acquisition Opportunities
Jul 7 2000 // Sydney-based Westpac Banking Corp. is reviewing possibilities of acquiring insurance and funds management businesses. “We certainly remain excited about opportunities in bancassurance, as we feel it represents the...
Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Co. Acquires Red Hawk Insurance Services
Jul 6 2000 // Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Company has acquired substantially all of the operating assets of Red Hawk Insurance Services, Inc., an insurance agency in San Diego, Calif. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. In...
