Latest Mergers & Acquisitions Headlines
All the headlines from our Mergers & Acquisitions Topic Page, ordered by recency.
M&A Insurance Rates Nearly Double After Explosion of Dealmaking During Pandemic
Dec 10 2021 // The cost of insurance to cover problems involving M&A has nearly doubled in just two years, underwriters and brokers said, after an explosion of global dealmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Potential buyers take out...
Leavitt Group Acquires Whims Insurance in Washington
Dec 9 2021 // Leavitt Group acquired Whims Insurance & Financial Services in Monroe, Washington. The Whims Insurance staff of 11, all locations, and contact information will remain the same. Whims Insurance & Financial Services...
Risk Strategies Acquires Fournier Group in Oregon
Dec 9 2021 // Risk Strategies acquired Fournier Group in Portland, Oregon. Fournier Group is a commercial and personal lines retail insurance agency led by President Greg Kuhns. In 2018, Fournier Group acquired Aircraft & Marine, an...
People Moves: Garland to Be President of State Auto After Liberty Mutual Acquisition
Dec 9 2021 // Liberty Mutual Insurance plans to appoint Kim Garland as president of State Auto Financial Corp. following the completion of Liberty Mutual’s pending acquisition of State Auto. The deal is expected to close in...
Risk Strategies Acquires New Jersey’s Meeker Sharkey & Hurley
Dec 9 2021 // Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, acquired full-service insurance and employee benefits agency Meeker Sharkey & Hurley. Terms of the deal were not announced. Meeker...
Leavitt Group Northwest Acquires Employee Benefits Division of SCS in Washington
Dec 8 2021 // Leavitt Group Northwest acquired the employee benefits division of the SCS Insurance in Bellevue, Washington. The acquisition brings a staff of six, with Chris Allen at the helm. Allen was and will remain director of the...
Hub Acquires Louisiana’s Gregory Benefits & Consulting
Dec 8 2021 // Hub International Limited, a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired the insurance brokerage assets of Gregory Benefits & Consulting LLC. Terms of the transaction were not...
Filhet-Allard Maritime Buys Majority Stake in Marine Specialist Latitude Brokers
Dec 8 2021 // Filhet-Allard Maritime, the France-based insurance broker for the commodities trading, shipping and industrial markets, has acquired a controlling stake in Latitude Brokers, a specialist marine broker based in Asia with...
BRP Group Acquires Texas-Based Arcana
Dec 8 2021 // BRP Group, Inc. announced that Millennial Specialty Insurance, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of BRP Group, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Arcana Insurance Services, LP , a Dallas, Texas-based national...
Hub Acquires Texas-Based Cameron Investment Company
Dec 7 2021 // Hub International Limited (Hub), a global insurance brokerage and financial services firm, has acquired Cameron Investment Company, Inc., d/b/a Shepard Walton King Insurance Group (Shepard Walton King). Terms of the...
Charles Taylor Accelerates Growth Course in the US as it Launches New Business Lines, Acquisitions and Attracts Top-Tier Talent
Dec 7 2021 // Achieving Rapid Growth in the US Since Rolling Out National Expansion Strategy NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 7, 2021 – Charles Taylor Adjusting and Technical Services, a leading global loss adjusting business, today...
Hong Kong’s AIA Group Sells Nearly $10 Billion of Coal Investments
Dec 7 2021 // AIA Group Ltd. has sold off almost $10 billion of investments in coal mining and coal-fired power businesses as pressure grows on financial firms to cut ties with the sector. The insurer completed the entire sale of...
Willis Towers Watson Acquires Sydney-Based Aviation Broker Aerosure
Dec 6 2021 // Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson announced the acquisition of Aerosure, a leading aviation industry specialist, focused on the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island region. Aerosure, based in Sydney, will become a...
Monarch E&S Acquires Assets of Anderson & Murison in California
Dec 6 2021 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services, a division of Specialty Program Group LLC, acquired the assets of Anderson & Murison Inc. in Los Angeles, California. A&M is a national surplus lines broker and underwriter of...
Alera Group Acquires New Jersey’s Customized Benefit Solutions
Dec 6 2021 // Alera Group, an independent, national insurance and wealth management firm, acquired Customized Benefit Solutions Inc. (CBSI), an employee benefits and insurance firm based in Hightstown, New Jersey. Terms of the...
UK Broker Aston Lark Acquires Client Book of Choice Benefits
Dec 6 2021 // Aston Lark, the London-based insurance broker backed by Goldman Sachs that is soon to become part of Howden, announced the acquisition of the client book of UK-based Choice Benefits Ltd. Financial details of the deal were...
Hub Acquires Assets of Alaska-Based Shattuck & Grummett
Dec 6 2021 // Hub International Ltd. acquired the assets of Shattuck & Grummett Insurance in Juneau, Alaska. John Grummett, Stacy Grummett, Rick Shattuck and Teresa Young, owners of Shattuck & Grummett Insurance, and the...
NFP Acquires Connecticut’s Insurance Provider Group
Dec 3 2021 // NFP, an insurance broker and consultant that provides property/casualty, corporate benefits, retirement and individual services, acquired the assets of Insurance Provider Group LLC (IPG). The transaction closed on October...
Sedgwick Acquires Belgian Engineering Consultancy ABESIM B.V.
Dec 3 2021 // Sedgwick, a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, announced it has acquired ABESIM B.V. in Belgium. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition...
The Hilb Group Acquires New Hampshire’s Clark & Lavey Benefits Solutions
Dec 3 2021 // The Hilb Group acquired Clark & Lavey Benefits Solutions Inc., increasing its New England presence and bolstering its range of employee benefits offerings nationwide. The transaction became effective November 1,...
