M&A
Ontario Pension Fund Commits $1B to Watsa’s Allied World Purchase
Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System agreed to invest $1 billion to back the $4.8 billion acquisition by Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. of insurer Allied World Assurance Co. ...
Valen Analytics Sold to Much-Larger Insurity for Undisclosed Price
Valen Analytics has been acquired by Insurity, a Connecticut-based company that supplies software, data processing and analytics for property/casualty insurers. Neither side disclosed financial ...
Italian Bank Intesa Reportedly Mulling Generali Acquisition
Italian banking and insurance group Intesa Sanpaolo is considering a bid for the country's biggest insurer, Assicurazioni Generali, sources said on Tuesday, in what would be among the industry's ...
Verisk Expands Casualty Analytics Capabilities With UK Acquisition
Verisk Analytics now owns Arium, a British company focused on liability risk modeling and decision support. Neither side disclosed financial terms, but the acquisition is the latest in a series of ...
OneBeacon Is Reportedly Soliciting Offers From Rival Insurers
OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd., the specialty insurer controlled by White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd., is exploring a sale, people familiar with the matter said. The Bermuda-based company recently ...
Marsh & McLennan Acquires Large Southeast Broker J. Smith Lanier
Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has agreed to acquire West Point, Ga.-based J. Smith Lanier & Co., one of the nation's largest, privately held ...
Hub International Snatches Up Canada’s Mainline Insurance Brokers & Affiliated Firms
Hub International Ltd., the Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, announced it has acquired Mainline Insurance Brokers Inc., Indian Head Agencies (1980) Ltd., R&J McKay Agencies Ltd. and ...
Watsa’s Fairfax Reportedly Wants Ontario Pension Fund to Back $4.9B Allied World Buy
Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is in talks with the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System to see if the pension fund will help finance his $4.9 billion takeover of Allied World ...