M&A News

Thinking About Usage Based Insurance? Get Real Life Experience Advice in Boston and Los Angeles

Seminar for insurance carrier professionals will offer frank insights and experiences on developing a successful UBI program Scottsdale, AZ, October 6, 2014: We’ve all seen the statistics. Telematics and UBI are exploding at an exponential rate. From 1.85 million insured …

Insurance Underwriter, Broker Merger Activity Up 20%: SNL

Year-to-date through June 20, the insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market witnessed 160 deal announcements, compared to 134 deals over the same period of 2013 — an increase of roughly 20 percent, according to SNL Financial. SNL said 34 insurance …

ACE Expands M&A Practice, Appoints North America Practice Leader

The ACE Group has expanded its Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Practice into a Private Equity Practice concentrating on insurance options for private equity firms, their portfolio companies as well as their M&A transactions. Seth Gillston, based in New York City, …

P/C Mergers Down in 2012 But Private Equity Still Favored Brokers: Conning

Amounting to just $4.7 billion in aggregate deal value, the 46 merger and acquisition transactions announced in the property/casualty insurance sector in 2012 were near record low levels, according to the latest annual M&A study from Conning. In the last …

China Broker CNinsure Announces Changes to Board of Directors

CNinsure Inc. an independent insurance intermediary company operating in China, announced that the board of directors of the Company has appointed Yunxiang Tang as an independent director of the Board and Yongwei Ma has resigned from the Board following the …

Allied World U.S. Creates Mergers & Acquisitions Division

Allied World U.S. has expanded its professional lines operations through the launch of a new mergers and acquisitions division that will be headed up by Jeff Anderson, vice president, in the company’s New York office. The new division will initially …

Report Says M&A Deal Flow Will Pick Up, Lists Potential Candidates

The insurance industry is likely to see more robust mergers-and-acquisitions activities in 2012, according to a New York investment and research firm. In 2011, the M&A deal volume started off relatively slowly, followed by a notable pick up in the …