2017 M&A News

CVS to Pay $67.5B for Aetna to Create Giant Health Firm with ‘10,000 New Front Doors’

CVS Health Corp. will buy Aetna Inc. for about $67.5 billion, creating a healthcare giant that will have a hand in everything from insurance to the corner drugstore. CVS will pay $207 a share for Aetna, with $145 a share …

Randall & Quilter Sells R&Q Managing Agency to U.S. MedMal Insurer Coverys

Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd. announced it has completed the sale of its Lloyd’s managing agency, R&Q Managing Agency Ltd. (RQMA), to Coverys, a provider of medical professional liability insurance based in Boston, Mass. The agreement between R&Q and …

Aon Switzerland Buys Swiss Broker Unidelta AG

Aon plc has acquired 100 percent interest in Unidelta AG, an insurance broker located in Rapperswil, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Unidelta AG was founded in 2004, and is an independent all-line insurance broker with a strong focus on personal injury management. …

Markel Completes Acquisition of UK Building Services Insurer EC Insurance Co.

Markel International, the specialist insurer, has completed its acquisition of EC Insurance Co. Ltd. (ECIC), having received approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority. Sevenoaks, England-based ECIC provides a wide range of insurance products for contractors and affinity groups across the …

Markel Finalizes Acquisition of State National Companies

Markel Corp. has completed its previously announced acquisition of State National Companies, a specialty provider of property/casualty insurance services that operates two core businesses, program services and lender services. Markel, a Virginia-based in Virginia holding company for insurance, reinsurance and …

Hub to Buy Wells Fargo Crop Insurance Broker Business

Global insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub) has agreed to acquire the assets of the crop insurance broker business of Wells Fargo Insurance. Terms of the agreement to buy the business, known as Wells Fargo Crop Insurance Agency, were not …

CVS, Aetna Could Close $70B Merger Deal as Soon as December

U.S. pharmacy operator CVS Health Corp. and health insurer Aetna Inc. are working toward finalizing merger terms and announcing a deal for more than $70 billion as early as December, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would …

XPT Group Acquires Wholesaler WSS and West-Pro of Texas

A new insurance distribution partnership XPT Group reports it has acquired WSS, a Plano, Texas, wholesale broker and managing general agency (MGA) including Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. and its managing general underwriting program division West-Pro. The transaction closed …

AmWINS Completes Acquisition of 15 Insurance Programs from Willis Towers Watson

Specialty insurance broker AmWINS Group reported that it has completed the previously-announced acquisition of 15 insurance programs from Willis Towers Watson. Terms were not disclosed. “The programs, product expertise and underwriting talent that we are acquiring from Willis Programs will …

Aon Completes Acquisition of Dutch Broker Unirobe Meeùs Groep

Aon Groep Nederland announced it has completed its acquisition of Unirobe Meeùs Group (UMG) from Aegon for €295 million (343.4 million). The acquisition encompasses the whole of Unirobe Meeùs Group, said Aon, noting that on completion Aon will be the …