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Endurance Acquires Galileo Weather Risk; Launches Global Weather Service

Bermuda-based Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that it has acquired the assets of Galileo Weather Risk Management, a provider of weather risk management products and services, and has hired all of its employees. The team “will be the foundation of …

Goldman Sachs Completes Acquisition of Ariel Re’s Bermuda Operations

The Goldman Sachs Group and Ariel Holdings Ltd announced that Ariel Holdings has completed the sale of Ariel Reinsurance’s Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance operations to Goldman Sachs, pursuant to the Acquisition Agreement announced on March 1, 2012. The purchase price …

Liberty Mutual Completes Deal for Ireland’s Quinn Insurance Operations

The Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group announced it has successfully completed the planned acquisition of Quinn’s Irish insurance business, as well as the transfer of all existing Quinn Insurance employees to Liberty Mutual’s new Irish company, which “plans to trade under …

Intact Financial to Acquire AXA’s Canada Operations for $2.684 Billion

Intact Financial Corp has agreed to buy the Canadian arm of AXA Group for C$2.6 billion ($2.684 billion) in cash in a move that will boost its premiums by more than 40 percent and diversify its product mix. The deal …