2021 M&A News

BRP Group to Acquire Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers

Subsidiaries of insurance agency partnership BRP Group have agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Wood Gutmann & Bogart Insurance Brokers and certain of its affiliates and related entities. Based in Tustin, California, WGB is a middle-market brokerage …

Smith Brothers Insurance Acquires Massachusetts’ Oxford Insurance Agency

Smith Brothers Insurance, based in Glastonbury, Connecticut, has acquired Oxford Insurance Agency, an independent insurance agency in Oxford, Massachusetts. The transaction is effective November 1, 2021. The acquisition expands Smith Brothers Insurance’s footprint in Massachusetts and allows Oxford Insurance to …

Willis Towers Watson Agrees to Acquire Remaining 51% Stake in WTW India

Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson announced the signing of an agreement to acquire the remaining 51% shares from Anemone Holdings Private Ltd and Rohit Jain in Willis Towers Watson (WTW) India. WTW currently owns 49% of Willis Towers Watson India …

AIG Completes Sale of Stake in Life & Retirement Unit to Blackstone

American International Group and Blackstone said they have closed on the previously disclosed transaction for Blackstone to acquire a 9.9% equity stake in AIG’s Life & Retirement business and for Blackstone to manage an initial $50 billion of Life & …

Investor Research Firm ISS to Acquire Discovery Data

Corporate governance and investor data firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. said it has agreed to acquire Discovery Data, Inc., which provides data and analytics to the asset management, insurance and other financial services industries. No terms were disclosed. Based in …

Ardonagh Group Closes on Acquisition of BGC Partners Insurance Units

UK insurance broker Ardonagh Group has completed its acquisition of the insurance operations of BGC Partners Inc. for $500 million in cash. The deal was first announced in May. Ardonagh has acquired 100% of Ed Broking Group and Besso Insurance, …

Generali Acquires Italy Insurer Cattolica to Boost Domestic Market Leadership

Italy’s top insurer Generali sealed its 1.17 billion euro ($1.36 billion) takeover of smaller rival Cattolica on Friday in a move aimed at cementing its domestic market leadership. On the last day of Generali’s buyout offer, investors had tendered shares …

EXOR Agrees to Sell PartnerRe to Covéa for $9B, Reviving Last Year’s Collapsed Deal

The Agnelli family’s EXOR NV agreed to sell its PartnerRe reinsurance unit to France’s Covéa for $9 billion, reviving a transaction that collapsed at the onset of the pandemic last year. Talks broke down in May 2020 when EXOR rejected …

La Banque Postale Plans to Buy French Insurer CNP

PARIS — The banking arm of French mail operator La Poste is planning to buy banking group BPCE’s stake in French insurer CNP, the companies said on Thursday, and then plans to make an offer to buy the rest of …

Risk Strategies Acquires New Jersey’s Corrigan Johnston Risk Advisors

Risk Strategies, a national specialty insurance brokerage and risk management firm, acquired Corrigan Johnston Risk Advisors, an all-lines brokerage focused on transportation-related industries. Terms of the deal were not announced. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Corrigan Johnston was founded …