Barry Zyskind News
AmTrust Struck With A.M. Best Ratings Downgrade
AmTrust Financial Services got slapped with a downgrade of its financial strength and credit ratings from A.M. Best, even as the company's stockholders recently approved a bid to take it private. The ...
AmTrust Shareholders Approve Revised $2.95B Plan to Go Private
Insurer AmTrust Financial Services said that AmTrust stockholders have approved a deal for it to become a private entity, a deal that values it at $2.95 billion and was negotiated after activist ...
AmTrust Postpones Shareholder Vote on Going Private; Contested Plan Lacks Shareholder Support
Lacking enough shareholder votes for approval, AmTrust Financial Services Inc. has postponed until June 21, 2018, the special meeting on a plan to take the insurer private. The meeting was originally ...
Should AmTrust Go Private at the June 4 Shareholder Vote? Both Sides Weigh In
Supporters and opponents of AmTrust Financial Services' bid to go private are making their case before the proposal goes before stockholders for a vote in just a couple of days. On May 29, AmTrust ...
AmTrust’s Proposed Privatization Attracts Another Opponent: Shareholder Arca Capital
The Prague-based investment firm Arca Capital said it plans to work with activist investor Carl Icahn and other minority shareholders to prevent a proposed privatization of AmTrust Financial Services ...
Icahn, a Large AmTrust Shareholder, Protests Deal to Take Insurer Private
AmTrust Financial Services Inc. jumped almost 12 percent in late trading Thursday after billionaire Carl Icahn disclosed a stake in the company and said he planned to oppose its plans to go private. ...
AmTrust Will Go Private; Deal Involves CEO Zyskind, Stone Point Capital
AmTrust Financial Services has sealed a deal to become a private company, after first disclosing plans to do so in early January. "This transaction represents an exciting step forward for AmTrust, ...
AmTrust CEO Zyskind, Stone Point Capital Propose Taking Insurer Private
A bid is afoot to take AmTrust Financial Services private. Stone Point Capital Partners, along with AmTrust Chairman and CEO Barry Zyskind and Director George Karfunkel (and his wife, Leah ...