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Reinsurance M&A news, or reinsurance mergers and acquisitions news, covering details of M&A transactions in the works and completed, between insurance, reinsurance and related companies.
Insurer Croatia Osiguranje completes Croatia Lloyd takeover
6th April 2017
Insurer Croatia Osiguranje yesterday announced the completion of its takeover of local reinsurance entity Croatia Lloyd. The acquisition enables the firm's expansion into the reinsurance segment, which the insurer hopes to utilise to give a boost to its affiliate businesses in Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Slovenia. Croatia Lloyd had been ... Read the full article
PartnerRe completes acquisition of life reinsurer Aurigen
4th April 2017
PartnerRe has announced the completion of its acquisition of life reinsurance company, Aurigen Capital Limited. Aurigen’s core business has been the reinsurance of life insurance policies of North American residents, and since 2013, mortality risk solutions in the U.S. Aurigen is a top-five life reinsurer in Canada based on recurring new reinsurance ... Read the full article
M&A activity looms over Bermudian market: A.M. Best
4th April 2017
M&A activity “looms” over the Bermudian market as global re/insurers look to grow their books in a market where fresh underwriting ground is becoming increasingly scarce, A.M. Best analysts said in their recent report on Bermudian market trends. Analysts said conditions in Bermuda were “ripe” for more M&A activity, although questions which ... Read the full article
Hannover Re acquires Lloyd’s firm Argenta Holdings
20th March 2017
Hannover Re has agreed to acquire UK holding firm Argenta Holdings - the owner of managing agent Argenta Syndicate Management, Argenta Private Capital, and a pro rata share of the Lloyd's syndicate Argenta Syndicate 2121. According to Argenta, Lloyd’s Syndicate 2121 has a stamp capacity for 2017 of £300 million. The firms ... Read the full article
M&A more expensive as Asian reinsurers seek diversification: Fitch
17th March 2017
M&A activity became more competitive last year, with valuation multiples shooting up as Chinese and Japanese reinsurers follow international earning diversification strategies, according to Fitch's newly released study on reinsurance market trends. Fitch said valuation multiples for M&A activity had risen last year to nearly 2.0x due to the influx of Asian ... Read the full article
Willis Towers Watson to acquire French aviation broker OAAGC
20th February 2017
Willis Towers Watson is set to acquire French aviation broker, OAAGC - a move that will see Willis' aviation business expand to top aviation insurance and reinsurance broker in France. The acquisition would transfer the entire OAAGC team and book of business over to Willis, and offer OAAGC clients access to Willis’s ... Read the full article
Enstar to sell Pavonia Life to Global Bankers Insurance Group for $120m
20th February 2017
Bermuda based insurance, reinsurance and run-off specialist Enstar Group has announced a $120m agreement to sell its Pavonia Holdings (US), Inc. subsidiary to an affiliate of Global Bankers Insurance Group for $120 million. Enstar originally acquired the Pavonia business, which includes Pavonia Life Insurance Company of Michigan, Pavonia Life Insurance Company of ... Read the full article
Fairfax Financial heads to New Zealand with $197m Tower acquisition
9th February 2017
Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial, which owns Brit Insurance and is in the process of acquiring re/insurer Allied World, is entering the New Zealand insurance market with the acquisition of Tower Insurance. Announced today, Fairfax Financial has made an all cash offer at $1.17 per share, so valuing the insurer at ... Read the full article
Fairfax to tap Omers pension fund, other investors, to finance Allied World buy
25th January 2017
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is close to securing as much as $1 billion from Canada's OMERS pension fund to help finance its acquisition of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG, according to reports. Prem Watsa's Canadian property & casualty insurance and reinsurance group Fairfax is set to acquire Switzerland headquartered specialty ... Read the full article
Soft re/insurance market conditions now main obstacle to MGA growth
20th January 2017
Soft re/insurance market conditions have replaced regulation and compliance as the main factor impacting growth of managing general agents (MGAs), according to a survey released yesterday by MGA start-up specialists, Castel Underwriting Agencies Limited (Castel). The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA), a Castel research-based partnership, surveyed its members to identify factors ... Read the full article
U.S. re/insurance companies rethink M&A in Trump era: Reuters
12th January 2017
U.S. insurance and reinsurance companies are rethinking strategic merger or acquisition transactions over a fear of being painted “anti-American” by President-elect Donald Trump, according to a Reuters report. Recent developments in U.S. business show how market developments and volatility - a risk ranked second place in global top threats to the ... Read the full article
JLT Re targets Latin American growth with latest acquisition
3rd January 2017
JLT Re has acquired Risk and Re-Insurance Solutions Corp (RRiSC), a Florida-based reinsurance intermediary that specialises in casualty treaty business, in a deal that will enable JLT Re to expand into key Latin American markets. In addition to taking on RRiSC’s client base in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, ... Read the full article
Execution risks sit on Allied World’s side in M&A with Fairfax Financial
21st December 2016
The execution risk associated with the impending merger of Canadian property & casualty insurance and reinsurance group Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited and specialty insurance, reinsurance and investments player Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG, sits largely with the latter it appears. Rating agency A.M. Best highlights that while there are ... Read the full article
Re/insurance M&A could slow on Trump uncertainty
20th December 2016
Uncertainty about the incoming Presidential administration of Donald Trump could slow down U.S. insurance and reinsurance merger & acquisition activity in the first-half of 2017, according to Vikram Sidhu, of Clyde & Co. in New York. Given the expectation that Trump's administration will result in some dramatic swings in policy direction, ... Read the full article
JLT Re acquires StoneHill Reinsurance Partners, LLC
19th December 2016
Reinsurance brokerage JLT Re, a subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT), has announced the acquisition of StoneHill Reinsurance Partners, LLC (StoneHill), a reinsurance intermediary that specialises in Medical Professional Liability business. StoneHill was established in 2012 by Dan Koshiol as an independent casualty reinsurance brokerage, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a ... Read the full article
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