2018 mergers & acquisitions News

Generali to Acquire Polish Asset Management Firm, Union Investment TFI

Generali has entered into an agreement with the German Group Union Asset Management Holding AG to acquire a 100 percent stake in the Polish asset management company Union Investment TFI S.A. Financial details of the acquisition were not revealed. The …

USI Insurance Services Acquires Pennsylvania’s Beneficial Insurance Services

USI Insurance Services (USI), a provider of insurance brokerage and risk management services, has acquired Philadelphia, Penn.-based Beneficial Insurance Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Beneficial Bancorp Inc. Founded in 2005, the insurance brokerage provides commercial property and casualty, personal …

Miller Agrees to Acquire London Re/Insurance Broker Alston Gayler

Miller announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Alston Gayler and Co. (AG), majority owned by Nelson Holdings Ltd. AG is an independent London market re/insurance broker specializing in multiple lines of business, said Miller, noting that …

Gallagher Acquires UK Commercial Broker Portmore

Global insurance broker, risk management services and consulting firm Gallagher announces the acquisition of Portmore Insurance Brokers Ltd. and Portmore Insurance Brokers (Wiltshire) Ltd. in the UK. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Southampton, England, Portmore was …

The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ DBR Group

The Hilb Group LLC has acquired Massachusetts-based DBR Group Inc. The transaction became effective October 1, 2018. Founded in 2004, DBR is an employee benefit and actuarial consulting firm providing a range of benefits consulting and brokerage services to organizations …

SASCO Insurance Services Merges with New Jersey’s Otterstedt Insurance Agency

SASCO Insurance Services of Hackettstown, N.J., has recently merged with Otterstedt Insurance Agency Inc., headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. SASCO Insurance has been providing customized insurance coverage plans for commercial and personal lines clients since 1984. Otterstedt has served a …

EPIC Acquires New York’s Total Management Corporation

EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, a national retail insurance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm, has acquired the assets, employees and operations of Total Management Corporation (TMC). Based in Melville, N.Y., with a second office in Manhattan, TMC has created …

Run-Off Firm Catalina Raises $700M, Forms Shareholder Restructure with Apollo, RenRe

Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd., a legacy runoff property and casualty re/insurance specialist, announced it has completed a US$700 million equity capital raise and concluded its shareholder restructuring after receiving regulatory approvals. As a result of this transaction, Apollo Global Management …

Largest African Insurer Sanlam Completes Acquisition of Morocco’s Saham Finances

Sanlam Ltd., Africa’s largest insurer by market value, said it fulfilled all the conditions for the $1.1 billion purchase of the shares it doesn’t already own in Morocco’s Saham Finances SA after regulators approved the deal. The Cape Town-firm’s biggest …

New York’s MLMIC Insurance Company Joins Berkshire Hathaway Family of Companies

MLMIC Insurance Company, formerly known as Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company, has completed its conversion from a property and casualty mutual insurance company to a property and casualty stock insurance company and its acquisition by National Indemnity Company, a subsidiary …