Sica Fletcher

JULY 31, 2024

The 2024 insurance M&A market has changed substantially from just a few years ago, with potentially staggering implications for the future of insurance M&A transactions. Insurance M&A Transactions in 2024 The insurance M&A transactions we have observed thus far in 2024 indicate larger trends in the sector.

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Sica Fletcher

MAY 29, 2024

M&A transactions for insurance companies are part of a robust but complicated market that requires ingesting a great deal of data in order to fully understand. While insurance M&A did see slight dips in deal volume and average value (Fig.2)

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 21, 2024

Sica | Fletcher has been providing M&A advisory services to agencies and brokerages of all sizes for a decade. In that time, we’ve represented thousands of clients and quickly became one of the most active boutique M&A advisory firms in the market today. Do You Need An Insurance Agency Investment Bank?

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 6, 2024

To begin, we need to start with a few definitions: Investment Banks: We use the colloquial meaning of “investment banks,” which often includes M&A advisory firms and other financial services firms that facilitate the growth and sale of insurance agencies around a possible sale.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 11, 2024

The Insurance Brokerage M&A Market in 2024 On average, insurance brokerages are seeing the highest valuations they’ve had in a decade. Until this happens, we expect the insurance broker M&A market to remain active but complicated. Since H1 2023, the average insurance brokerage valuation multiple has hovered around 11.6x

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 14, 2024

Insurance agency owners who are considering the prospect of running an M&A deal process often have many concerns about the fate of their agencies, but the most common by far are those surrounding the agency’s purchase price at closing. Some smaller agencies, for example, might get a higher multiple than 6.1x

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Sica Fletcher

APRIL 11, 2024

Seller 1: The Owners Insurance agency sellers typically have clear motivations and goals going into the M&A deal process. Insurance Agency Seller Motivations Insurance agency owners enter into an M&A arrangement with one of several goals in mind.

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