USI Insurance Services
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Challenges include integration, delevering, winning staff over and building a compelling equity story.
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A “return to minimal valuation increases can be expected soon”, the broker wrote in its 2024 P&C market outlook report.
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With the deal, KKR purchased over half of USI shares held by Canadian investment firm CDPQ in addition to stock from other investors.
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The three former USI employees were held liable for breach of contract after violating non-solicitation clauses.
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Increased cost of capital is cooling tuck-in M&A, encouraging a pivot to organic growth and forcing greater creativity around financing.
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The cases were filed in California and Florida courts, states where non-competes are currently treated differently, and followed the FTC’s move to ban them.
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The proposed change could disrupt M&A at brokers, shift the calculus in favor of team lifts and dial up C-suite focus on becoming an employer of choice.
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A tougher environment for debt financing and a potential recession will reverse some of the remarkable tailwinds of recent years.
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The report, which covers a range of lines of business, also notes that D&O is continuing to trend towards a buyer’s market.
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USI is projecting rate increases across most lines of business will flatten or even decrease in 2022.
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The transaction follows USI’s acquisition of four other regional agencies earlier this year.
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The acquisition follows a buyout in May of Northwest Insurance Services, a subsidiary of Northwest Bank.
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The transaction follows USI's acquisition of two regional agency businesses earlier this year.
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Interest in parametric coverages has increased among insurance buyers as a response to coverage gaps exposed by unanticipated losses and tightening traditional market capacity.
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The transaction is expected to close early in the second quarter of 2021.
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Inland will become part of USI’s Northwest division, under regional CEO Chris Prentice.
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The KKR and CDOQ-backed intermediary pays just under 3x rolling 12-month revenue for ABRC.
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Dean Anderson, Roger Maldonado and Taylor Anderson will join the broker’s southeast practice in Atlanta, Georgia.
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D&O rates are expected to increase generally 25 to 50 percent over Q4, although rates for some “troubled” accounts may double.