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

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

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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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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Align Business Advisory Services

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Introduction Since 2017, over 4,500 healthcare service companies have been acquired. Read More » The post M&A in Physician Practice Management: An Alternative to Hanging Up the White Coat appeared first on Align BA. Everyone needs to see the doctor when they are sick, whether the economy is thriving.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 30, 2024

Updated Rankings for S&P Global’s Market Intelligence League Tables Released NEW YORK, NY - July 30, 2024 - Leading advisory firm Sica | Fletcher continues to command the insurance M&A industry by maintaining the #1 spot on S&P Global’s Market Intelligence 2024 League Tables.

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Sica Fletcher

JULY 23, 2024

In it, we provide readers with a quick and simple overview of the current insurance brokerage M&A market , after which we discuss several macroeconomic and industry-specific factors that could drastically affect transactions in the next six months. The market is already highly competitive, but it’s also limited to what buyers can afford.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 5, 2024

YTD June 2024 Agency and Broker Buyer Index Shows a Steady Rise for M&As NEW YORK, NY – August 6, 2024 - Sica | Fletcher releases the Q2 2024 Agency & Broker Buyer Index. Private Equity-backed buyers maintain a dominant position in M&A activity, accounting for 87% of YTD June 2024 Index transactions.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 5, 2024

YTD June 2024 Agency and Broker Buyer Index Shows a Steady Rise for M&As NEW YORK, NY – August 5, 2024 - Sica | Fletcher releases the Q2 2024 Agency & Broker Buyer Index. Private Equity-backed buyers maintain a dominant position in M&A activity, accounting for 87% of YTD June 2024 Index transactions.

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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 3, 2024

billion in 2017. We spoke to Harness CEO and founder Jyoti Bansal about his previous company, which Cisco bought for $3.7 © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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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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Sica Fletcher

MAY 13, 2024

Q1 2024 Agency and Broker Buyer Index Reveals a Dynamic Landscape for Insurance M&A NEW YORK, NY - May 13, 2024 - Sica | Fletcher releases the Q1 2024 Agency & Broker Buyer Index. The shift in buyer rotation year-over-year continues to shape the dynamic insurance M&A landscape. Learn more at SicaFletcher.com.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 23, 2023

According to the S&P Global Market Intelligence League Table, Sica | Fletcher closed 51 M&A deals year to date (mainly insurance-related), representing a commanding 46% of all 2023 transactions and nearly double that of its closest competitor. Learn more at , SicaFletcher.com.

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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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TechCrunch: M&A

AUGUST 15, 2024

Prytek had already been a big investor in TipRanks since 2017, most recently leading a $77 million round in the company in 2021. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Francine Way

JULY 22, 2017

On this very last valuation blog post, I'd like to walk us through a presentation I made back in April 2017 as a part of my master in finance fellowship Capstone presentation. The sound quality is much better this way.

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Sica Fletcher

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

S&P Global’s 2023 Market Intelligence League Table Released NEW YORK, NY - February 8, 2024 - Sica | Fletcher, a premier financial advisory firm, retains its commanding presence in the #1 spot on S&P Global’s Market Intelligence League Table, a position the firm has held quarter-over-quarter since 2017. Learn more at SicaFletcher.com.

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Deal Lawyers

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

private M&A deals in 2022 was higher than in any year since 2017.” John has blogged previously about the renewed reliance on earnouts in today’s uncertain environment. In fact, this Freshfields blog states that “one recent study found that the use of earnouts in U.S.

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Cooley M&A

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compensation matters, including retention packages, equity treatment and related disclosure, are always key negotiating points in M&A transactions. In this post, we discuss compensation challenges in M&A deals in a depressed market and how dealmakers can address these issues.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 12, 2018

The January 12, 2018, edition of TechCrunch’s weekly venture capital-focused podcast, Equity, looks back at the past year’s M&A transactions and evaluates what’s in store for 2018. Listen to the podcast. Jamie Leigh.

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Francine Way

MAY 15, 2017

Similarly, a good M&A program has to take into account how each transaction and the overall program should be financed. We continue our debt discussion in this post by looking at management considerations on funding a M&A program. If there is enough surplus available, the remainder can be used to finance an M&A transaction.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“It’s an honor to welcome Neal to Cooley as a key member of our global M&A practice,” said Jamie Leigh, partner and co-chair of the firm’s M&A group. Neal is a remarkable M&A practitioner with extensive experience counseling leading, multinational public companies across all industries. Read more.

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Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

Buying and selling a company has many overlaps to buying and selling a house. There are many reasons to sell a house: wanting liquidity and diversification (especially if the house is an investment property), lack of progress toward a financial / strategic goals (i.e. the house failed to increase in expected value), mature market (i.e.

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Sica Fletcher

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Sica | Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index is the most comprehensive report on insurance brokerage M&A activity in existence. The Sica | Fletcher Agency & Broker Buyer Index is the most comprehensive report on insurance brokerage M&A activity in existence. Learn more at , SicaFletcher.com.

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TechCrunch: M&A

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Founded in 2017, Redwood City, California-based Airkit was created by Adam Evans and Stephen Ehikian, who sold a previous big data startup called RelateIQ to Salesforce for $390 million […] Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents.

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The Deal

AUGUST 9, 2023

M&A is a central part of SymphonyAI’s growth strategy as the company prepares for a potential private placement and, eventually, an IPO. “We’re Founded in 2017, the Palo Alto, Calif., The post On the Hunt: SymphonyAI’s M&A Algo appeared first on The Deal. AI), which is not profitable, has a $4.4

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Over the past several years, cybersecurity issues have become prominent areas of emphasis for M&A due diligence. Andy Lustig will participate on a panel to discuss how to approach cybersecurity due diligence, and how to address and mitigate cybersecurity risks in M&A transactions. Tuesday, September 26, 2017.

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Cooley M&A

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Legal Week has nominated Cooley for its M&A Team of the Year in the large deal category as part of the 2021 British Legal Awards , which honor the best of the best within the UK’s legal community.

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TechCrunch: M&A

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Founded in 2017, Spiff serves up a low-code interface designed to make it easy for businesses to create a sales compensation plan that automatically updates based on personnel meeting their pre-agreed targets. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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The TRADE

JANUARY 9, 2024

This followed an internship at M&G Investments in 2017. This followed an internship at M&G Investments in 2017. Jacobs has spent the last five years at Liquidnet, most recently serving as an equity trader – a role she held for the last three and a half years. Jacobs announced her promotion in a social media post.

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Sica Fletcher

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Leveraging self-reported data from 22 prominent agent and broker acquirers, this index monitors M&A transactions representing 73% of all agency and brokerage deal activity as of YTD September 2023. The Sica | Fletcher Broker Buyer Index stands as the leading report on mergers and acquisitions within the insurance brokerage sector.

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Francine Way

JULY 12, 2017

As I mentioned in my last post, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) is a valuation method that uses free cash flow projections, a discount rate, and a growth rate to find the present value estimate of a potential investment. Essentially, it is a way to value a company based on cash generated from operation, taking into account all major expenses.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

What’s on tap for 2018 M&A? A recap of 2017 trends and the Cooley outlook on this year’s dealmaking: Buying Innovation: Retention and Non-Competes. As an example, for California specific requirements, see our prior blog post Non-Competes for California Employees in M&A Deals: Don’t Fudge It.

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Quest: Mergers & Acquisitions

APRIL 21, 2019

The question of whether a merger and acquisition (M&A) or divestiture will hit your organization is settled. The real question is whether the department that carries the brunt of the M&A work is prepared: Information Technology. That’s a 19% increase over 2017 according to Thompson Reuters1.

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Cooley M&A

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

government shutdown disrupting the market for IPOs, Brexit uncertainty, natural disasters and various other crises, cross-border M&A activity momentum continues. The following 10 key trends are underpinning hyperactivity in global M&A markets and are set to continue to shape deals well into 2019. In July 2018, the U.K.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 24, 2020

Detailed below are our “notes from the field” for tech M&A in 2019. Tech M&A hit the global regulatory crosshairs in 2019 – creating a deal environment in which regulatory clearance, timing and scope of review quickly become one of the most critical factors in assessing transaction risk.

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Cisco: M&A

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time since 2017, we’re in a ne… Read more on Cisco Blogs It’s hard to believe that Cisco Partner Summit 2023 is right around the corner in Miami Beach, Florida on November 6th – 9th. Yes, you read that correctly.

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