Total US insurance industry M&A deals in Q4 2018 worth $4.28bn were announced, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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The value marked an increase of 5.2% over the previous quarter and a drop of 79.7% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $21.11bn.
The United States held a 25.8% share of the global insurance industry M&A deal value that totalled $16.55bn in Q4 2018.
In terms of deal activity, the United States recorded 115 deals during Q4 2018, marking a rise of 3.6% over the previous quarter and a rise of 4.6% over the last four-quarter average.
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By GlobalDataUS insurance industry M&A deals in Q4 2018: Top deals
The top five insurance industry M&A deals accounted for 96.3% of the overall value during Q4 2018.
The combined value of the top five insurance industry M&A deals stood at $4.12bn, against the overall value of $4.28bn recorded for the quarter. The top announced insurance industry M&A deal tracked by GlobalData in Q4 2018 was Japan Post Holdings’ $2.4bn acquisition of Aflac.
In second place was the $650m acquisition of FOJP SERVICE and Hospitals Insurance by The Doctors and in third place was Berkshire Hathaway’s $460m acquisition of The Travelers Companies.
The $405m acquisition of National Teachers Associates Life Insurance by Horace Mann Educators and National Western Life Insurance’s acquisition of N.I.S. Financial Services and Ozark National Life Insurance for $205.5m held fourth and fifth positions, respectively.
This analysis considers only announced and completed deals from the GlobalData financial deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. Country and industry are defined according to the headquarters and dominant industry of the target firm.
GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.
More in-depth reports and analysis on all reported deals are available for subscribers to GlobalData’s deals database.
