All the agency purchase and sales during the First Quarter of 2021
As Agency Checklists has done for every quarter for the past few years, the following is a running list of the agency acquisitions reported or announced during the 1st Quarter of 2021 (Q1-2021). For comparison purposes, the listing also includes those insurance agency mergers and acquisitions Agency Checklists compiled in both 2020, and 2019. Since not every purchase and sale is announced, however, please note that this list includes only the transactions that Agency Checklists has been made aware of or that were announced publicly.
The purpose of this list is to help our readers take stock of the consolidation of the marketplace within Massachusetts versus what is happening nationally. In 2020 and 2021, a shift has occurred in the types of agencies acquiring other agencies. A couple of years ago, the majority of purchases and sales had been between agencies owned and operated in Massachusetts. In the past year, however, there has been a much wider variety of acquirers from local banks to large regional agencies, to major national agencies.
Our proprietary list of purchases and sales of Massachusetts insurance agencies
Based on our data for 2021, insurance agency acquisitions in Massachusetts were as follows:
- There were a total of eight (8) reported M&A transactions in Massachusetts, and ten (10) in New England during the First Quarter of 2021.
- For comparison purposes, there were eleven (11) reported M&A transactions in Massachusetts only during Q1 of 2020.
- The busiest months for acquisitions during Q1-2021 was evenly split between January and March.
- February had no announced transactions.
Massachusetts agencies sold in 2021
The following is a list of the transactions featured in Agency Checklists during 2021, followed by our list from 2020, and 2019. As always, if you know of a sale of an insurance agency not listed here, please help us keep this list as accurate as possible by letting us know here.
January 2021 (Q1)
World Insurance Associates Acquires The R.S. Gilmore Insurance Agency
The Philbin Insurance Group Purchases The Douglas Insurance Agency
AssuredPartners Northeast Acquires Fessenden & Sykes
Hub Acquires The Alpha Pension Group
Duffy Insurance Announces 10th Acquisition With Purchase Of The Barry & O’Connor Agency
February 2021 (Q2)
None reported
March 2021
Jeff Carbone Insurance Agency Acquires Hughes Insurance
Deland, Gibson Insurance Acquires The Dickey Insurance Agency
Hub NE Expands In Vermont With Finn & Stone, Inc. Acquisition
Compass Planners Joins Forces With The Hilb Group
AssuredPartners Acquires The Joseph A. Glynn Insurance Agency
Massachusetts agencies sold in 2020
January 2020 (Q1)
The Connolly Insurance Agency Merges With Morse Insurance
Alera Group Acquires Massachusetts’ Sylvia Group
Risman Insurance Acquires MassPay Insurance Agency*
February 2020 (Q1)
The Hilb Group Acquires Group Brokerage Insurance Agency
FBInsure Acquires Attleboro’s Nimiroski Insurance Agency
The Risman Insurance Agencies acquire the T.F. Ward Insurance Agency of Melrose
March 2020 (Q1)
The Risman Agency Acquires The Phil Richard Insurance Agency*
Kaplansky Insurance Acquires Pike Insurance
The Hilb Group, LLC Acquires LifePlus Insurance Agency, Inc.
Gilbert Insurance Acquires Aljane Insurance Inc. of Medford
April 2020 (Q2)
No Acquisitions Announced This Month
May 2020 (Q2)
The DiVirgilio Insurance Agency Acquires On-Time Payroll, Inc.
Hub Acquires Massachusetts-Based Lashua-LaChance & Poliks Insurance Agency, Inc.
June 2020 (Q2)
The Madeleine Brooks Insurance Agency Is Acquired By The A.P. Michaud Agency, LLC
Foley Palenscar Schortmann Acquires Pollicelli & Mullen Insurance Agency
Assured Partners Acquires WTPhelan & Co. Insurance Agency, Inc.
July 2020
AHT Insurance Acquires Mason & Mason Insurance
Chatham’s Eldredge & Lumpkin Sold To The Hilb Group
The N. Pingree Insurance Agency Joins The Duffy Family of Insurance Agencies
Morin & Foy Merges With First American Insurance Agency
August 2020
Brown & Brown Acquires Quincy’s Amity Insurance Agency
Risman Insurance Acquires Insurance Associates of Burlington, MA
September 2020
Risk Strategies Acquires Securitas Insurance Partners
October 2020
Alera Group Acquires Gordon Atlantic Insurance Agency
Eastern Insurance Continues Expansion With Auburn Insurance Agency Acquisition
November 2020
Hub Acquires Its Second Massachusetts Agency in 2020 -Baystate Fiduciary Advisors, Inc.
Assured Partners Acquires People’s United Insurance Agency
December 2020
MTM Insurance Acquires The Brian S. Dempsey Insurance Agency
Eastern Insurance Group LLC Acquires Assets Of Campbell, Flaherty & Ring Insurance Agency, Inc.
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires North Star Marine Insurance
Cross Insurance Acquires Boston Marine Insurance Services, LLC*
Cross Insurance Acquires The McSweeney & Ricci Insurance Agency*
Massachusetts agencies sold in 2019 – Updated in 2020
January 2019 (Q1)
Make It 32 – Kaplansky Insurance Acquires The KW Insurance Agency
Ryan Specialty Group, LLC To Acquire Boston Insurance Specialists
February 2019 (Q1)
FBinsure Acquires The Reid-Hofmann Insurance Agency
C&S Insurance Announces The Acquisition Of The Francis M Walley Insurance Agency, Inc.
March 2019 (Q1)
WTPhelan Acquires The Robert J. Cappadona Insurance Agency
The Hilb Group Acquires Another Massachusetts Insurance Agency, It’s First Of 2019
Cross Insurance Acquires The Quincy Insurance Agency (added in 2020)
April 2019 (Q1)
No reported transactions
May 2019 (Q2)
Rogers & Gray’s Acquires The Paul Peters Agency of Falmouth & Mashpee
June 2019 (Q2)
Risk Strategies Acquires MainStreet Consulting Group
New England-based 360 Corporate Benefit Advisors Bought By The Hilb Group
Boston-based Risk Strategies Acquires Creative Insurance Solutions
Twinbrook Acquired By Brown & Brown of Massachusetts
Cross Insurance Acquires The Gerald T. McCarthy Insurance Agency (added in 2020)
July 2019 (Q2)
Risk Strategies Acquires California’s Winter Group, Inc.
T. Edmund Garrity Acquires The Willard Martin Agency
Risk Strategies Acquires Gerard B. Tracy Associates
The Hilb Group Acquires Massachusetts’ Agency Handy-Apple Valley, LLC
Boston-based Risk Strategies Buys New York Brokerage Firm Reiff & Associates
August 2019 (Q3)
HUB New England Acquires The Insurance Center of New England
Brown & Brown of Massachusetts Acquires Boston’s Yozell Associates
September 2019 (Q3)
The John C. Gallagher Insurance Agency Joins Kaplansky Insurance
The Hilb Group, LLC Acquires Massachusetts-based, The Incentive Group, LLC
October 2019 (Q4)
No reported transactions
November 2019 (Q4)
The Hilb Group Is Sold To The Carlyle Group
The Hilb Group Acquires Southborough-based G&N Insurance
Brown & Brown Of Massachusetts Acquires Poole Professional Cos.
Cross Insurance Acquires Fair and Yeager Insurance Agency (added in 2020)
December 2019 (Q4)
Another Massachusetts Insurance Producer Joins The Hilb Group
Alera Group Acquires Massachusetts’s Sylvia Group
