Sun Acquisitions

AUGUST 2, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a strategic tool for food distributors to achieve this diversification rapidly and efficiently. This article explores how M&A can expand a distributor’s range to include more health-conscious products, addressing evolving consumer trends, and achieving greater market diversification.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 28, 2024

The following report contains our observations of insurance M&A trends in 2024. As a result, our analysts predict a flurry of M&A activity in H2 2024. As insurance M&A enters into the 2020s, however, buyers are looking at several additional factors that speak to an agency’s more intangible qualities.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 30, 2023

Q2 Broker Buyer Index Shows a 16% Increase in Deal Volume Over Q1 2023 NEW YORK, NY - August 30, 2023 - Sica | Fletcher releases the Q2 2023 Agency & Broker Buyer Index. The Sica | Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index is the most comprehensive report on insurance brokerage M&A activity in existence.

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Sica Fletcher

JUNE 20, 2024

The insurance M&A market in 2024 is significantly more complex now than it was 20 years ago. However, this report seeks to make sense of these qualities as a whole to provide an overview of the 2024 insurance M&A market. The table of contents below offers quick links for readers seeking specific information in later sections.

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Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

Most companies, especially those with $20 million or more in sales, will engage an investment banker or professional advisor to manage the sale process (smaller companies will typically engage a broker-dealer). Buying and selling a company has many overlaps to buying and selling a house. inheritance), and conflict among owners (i.e.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 8, 2024

The inherent uncertainty of the M&A market over the last 18 months has underscored the importance of context for supplementing a full understanding before we can gain a better sense of what to expect in 2024. So, how did we get here? What Is Affecting Insurance Agency EBITDA Multiples?

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Sun Acquisitions

APRIL 2, 2024

established in 2017, has carved a niche in the market by specializing in manufacturing outdoor living and garden décor products. With a track record of over 400 successfully managed transactions across diverse industries, Sun Acquisitions is widely recognized as a leading M&A advisory firm in the Midwest.

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Sun Acquisitions

MARCH 27, 2024

In today’s business landscape, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are not just about profit and market share. Sustainability and ESG have become pivotal considerations in M&A deals, transforming how organizations evaluate, structure, and execute these transactions.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 1, 2024

The Process of Selling an Insurance Brokerage Selling an insurance brokerage essentially consists of six phases and spans between 8-18 months on average: The Phases of Selling an Insurance Brokerage We should note that this process is longer than it used to be; insurance M&A transactions just a few years ago took between 6-12 months on average.

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Sun Acquisitions

JULY 11, 2024

Similarly, Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017 was about more than just expanding into the grocery market. Similarly, Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017 was about more than just expanding into the grocery market. At its core, acquisition involves more than just numbers on a balance sheet.

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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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Sun Acquisitions

AUGUST 2, 2024

Leveraging Strategic Acquisitions to Address Workforce Shortages Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) present a strategic opportunity for sign manufacturers to overcome workforce shortages by integrating companies with skilled labor into their operations. Finding and retaining skilled labor is difficult.

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Sica Fletcher

MARCH 26, 2024

On average, company leaders in any industry who attempt an M&A transaction using an in-house team average 30% less once the deal is complete. Below, we offer a basic breakdown of the most common advisors in an M&A transaction. The two most common types of M&A buyers are: Strategic. Retirement. Financial Security.

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The TRADE

APRIL 17, 2024

However, unlike the many buy-side desks looking to achieve synergies by merging asset classes, Robeco chose to separate its trading desks by asset class in 2017 in the pursuit of greater efficiency. Global asset manager Robeco leverages a low touch and high touch trading team that spans across three continents.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 1, 2020

This was the fourth year in a row fundraising surpassed half a trillion dollars, with 2017, 2018, and 2019 recording the highest amounts of capital raised in history. PE-backed agencies now dominate the M&A market and have grown and created enormous wealth for sellers, PE investors, and management. The question is, “Why?”.

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Sica Fletcher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Acquiring agencies under the rubric of one broker leads to added growth and operating efficiencies for all the agencies involved. The industry is dramatically fragmented and there are many opportunities for the acquisition of healthy smaller businesses with no clear succession plans. It is not only to “sell.” billion today.

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Sica Fletcher

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Our recent blog posts have covered the private equity boom in insurance brokerages , however, the reality is that the vast preponderance of insurance brokerages (probably over 95%) have revenues under $5 million annually. While these are often thriving businesses, they are nearly always too small for direct investment by a private equity firm.

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The TRADE

JULY 24, 2023

Eppacher moved to New York in 2017 to take up the role of head of multi-asset for the Americas, before moving back to Germany to head up the firm’s global equities business and later took the helm all together as global head of trading in 2021. I’m not involved in day-to-day trading anymore,” he says. “I’m

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Sica Fletcher

DECEMBER 12, 2019

(Otherwise Known as “How Acquisitions Are Structured”) Our November blog post asked how a smaller agency can take advantage of the tsunami of private equity investment in insurance brokerages. We thought it would be helpful to write a blog post outlining how acquisitions are typically structured in the current environment.

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Tyton Partners

JUNE 20, 2023

Cecilia Conrad (CC): Lever for Change is a broker. We started talking about it and created the first award in 2017. An interview with Cecilia Conrad, Chief Executive Officer of Lever for Change, on the open call funding model. You started with 100&Change , can you talk a little bit about the original story?

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