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Private Equity Firm GTCR Returns to Take Majority Stake in AssuredPartners

Apax VIII, a fund advised by Apax Partners, has agreed to sell its entire stake in AssuredPartners, a growing U.S. insurance brokerage, to an investor group led by GTCR, a Chicago-based private equity firm. GTCR previously owned AssuredPartners from its …

Stone Point Capital Completes Acquisition of Pennsylvania’s Genex Services

Genex Services (Genex), a Wayne, Penn.-based provider of cost containment services to the workers’ compensation, disability and auto industries, announced that funds managed by private equity firm Stone Point Capital LLC (Stone Point) have acquired a majority interest in Genex …

Apax, Carlyle Reported Among Bidders for Indian Insurer Royal Sundaram

Apax Partners and Carlyle Group LP are among suitors weighing bids for a stake in Indian insurer Royal Sundaram General Insurance Co., people with knowledge of the matter said. The unit of Mumbai-listed Sundaram Finance Ltd. has started a process …

Global Insurance Fintech Investment Grew by 237% in 2015: Accenture Research

While insurance historically has been a laggard in the fintech race, it is increasingly a high-growth investment area in the fintech field, according to research from Accenture. Accenture’s fintech research reveals that the overall increase in global insurance investment levels …

Hub International in Chicago Passes from One Owner to Another

Ownership of the insurance broker Hub International is being passed from one private equity firm to another. Funds advised by Hellman & Friedman will buy a majority stake of the Chicago company in a deal that values Hub at $4.4 …

Insurance Broker Hub Intl. Acquired by Funds Manager in Deal Valued at $4.4 Billion

Global insurance broker Hub International Limited (Hub), said it has agreed to be acquired by funds advised by Hellman & Friedman LLC. The transaction values Hub at approximately $4.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, investment funds managed by …