{"id":11125,"date":"2026-01-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshberry.com\/eu\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:00:00","slug":"uk-insurance-distribution-ma-has-a-quiet-end-to-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshberry.com\/eu\/blog\/uk-insurance-distribution-ma-has-a-quiet-end-to-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"UK insurance distribution M&amp;A has a quiet end to 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>December is a \u2018short\u2019 month in terms of business days, and&nbsp;in the&nbsp;UK,&nbsp;there is no tax-driven motivation&nbsp;to&nbsp;close&nbsp;deals&nbsp;by year&nbsp;end.&nbsp;Historically,&nbsp;December&nbsp;has&nbsp;been no less active than&nbsp;any other&nbsp;month for&nbsp;insurance&nbsp;distribution mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;A), with an average of more than eight deals a month over the past decade.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;December 2025 saw only four new deals, making it (jointly) the quietest month of 2025 for M&amp;A, and the quietest December since 2016. It means the UK ended&nbsp;the year with 99 deals announced, just shy of the 100&nbsp;figure&nbsp;that the month-on-month deal count has been broadly tracking towards throughout 2025.&nbsp;It also&nbsp;marked&nbsp;the first time since 2017 that the total number of sector deals&nbsp;in a year&nbsp;has not exceeded 100.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-m-amp-a-market-update-nbsp\"><strong>M&amp;A Market Update<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The small number of new deals&nbsp;announced in December left the total for the year just shy of 100, rounding out a slow year for sector M&amp;A. MarshBerry will be publishing its annual review of sector M&amp;A in the&nbsp;spring. This review will&nbsp;detail&nbsp;who sold and why, as well as looking at the overall value of M&amp;A, including using headcount analysis to consider the changing pace of overall sector consolidation.&nbsp;(Spoiler Alert: both have fallen substantially.)&nbsp;This&nbsp;month\u2019s M&amp;A update&nbsp;is just&nbsp;a short summary&nbsp;of how the year ended,&nbsp;with&nbsp;a few suggestions as to why 2025 has seen such a precipitous&nbsp;decrease&nbsp;in the number of UK deals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-marshberry-beige-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5a4d3e713b6c96529fcf2dbf1ef6f972\"><strong>Total Volume of Announced UK Insurance Distribution M&amp;A, Annual<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marshberry.com\/eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/marshberry-announced-transactions-2016-2025.png\" alt=\"Bar chart showing announced transactions from 2016 to 2025, peaking at 152 deals in 2024 before dropping significantly to 99 in 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-11615\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshberry.com\/eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/marshberry-announced-transactions-2016-2025.png 964w, https:\/\/www.marshberry.com\/eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/marshberry-announced-transactions-2016-2025-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.marshberry.com\/eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/marshberry-announced-transactions-2016-2025-768x408.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Source: MarshBerry Proprietary Database&nbsp;and Companies House. Data as of&nbsp;12\/31\/2025.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-quiet-q4-for-nbsp-sector-m-amp-a-nbsp\"><strong>A quiet Q4 for&nbsp;sector M&amp;A<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With only 22 announced&nbsp;deals&nbsp;in Q4, the last quarter of 2025 has been the&nbsp;quietest&nbsp;Q4&nbsp;for sector M&amp;A since 2016.&nbsp;This is&nbsp;in spite of&nbsp;a number of&nbsp;JMG Group\u2019s 2025 deals falling into the quarter, as well continued activity from consistently active buyers including Partners&amp;, The Broker Investment Group and&nbsp;Jensten&nbsp;Group. But as MarshBerry has remarked before, the story of 2025 has been of a year in which many of the most active buyers of the past 5-10 years have done significantly less M&amp;A \u2013 Ardonagh, Brown &amp; Brown, PIB Group, Clear, Gallagher and Seventeen Group have all been noticeably quieter over the past 12 months, at least in the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But why has sector M&amp;A fallen so rapidly? And why have the deal&nbsp;sizes&nbsp;declined?&nbsp;Of the 99 deals in 2025,&nbsp;more than half&nbsp;have involved a target employing fewer&nbsp;than 10&nbsp;staff, and there were only five deals with a value of more than \u00a3100 million, the lowest since 2019. Some of this relates to supply:&nbsp;the fact is that there are significantly fewer mid-sized targets for consolidators to go after,&nbsp;but there are also demand-side explanations.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The softening&nbsp;rate environment has removed a multi-year tailwind from the sector,&nbsp;impacting&nbsp;organic growth.&nbsp;As a result, some of the larger private equity (PE)-owned businesses are having difficulties&nbsp;securing high-multiple exits.&nbsp;While valuations of&nbsp;publicly-traded&nbsp;brokers have&nbsp;declined&nbsp;over the past three quarters, with a&nbsp;trickle down&nbsp;impact on the valuations further down the food chain. Creating lasting value has become more difficult, which has introduced increased caution around acquisitions and renewed scepticism of the \u201cpile \u2018em&nbsp;high\u201d M&amp;A strategies that have characterised the recent record-breaking years of deal activity.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-nbsp-will-nbsp-sector-nbsp-m-amp-a-activity-in-nbsp-2026-look-like-nbsp-nbsp\"><strong>What&nbsp;will&nbsp;sector&nbsp;M&amp;A activity in&nbsp;2026 look like?<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are&nbsp;arguably no&nbsp;immediate catalysts that will&nbsp;likely push&nbsp;deal activity up to 2023\/24 levels for the&nbsp;foreseeable future. Softening&nbsp;rates, debt costs that are still historically high and general macroeconomic nervousness are unlikely to&nbsp;fade away quickly. On the supply side,&nbsp;new&nbsp;broker and MGA&nbsp;(Managing General Agent)&nbsp;formations&nbsp;coming to market in 2026&nbsp;won\u2019t&nbsp;even scratch the surface in terms of&nbsp;filling&nbsp;demand. But on the plus side, the sector still has plenty of capital waiting to be deployed in M&amp;A. Three UK commercial broking consolidators took on new PE capital in 2025. Overseas interest in UK insurance distribution&nbsp;remains&nbsp;buoyant (there were 15 unique overseas buyers of businesses in 2025, of which four were&nbsp;acquiring&nbsp;in the UK for the first time)&nbsp;and is not limited to North America. And the factors that make insurance distribution such an attractive,&nbsp;resilient&nbsp;and enduring&nbsp;sector&nbsp;\u2013 as well as the demonstrable value that a well-executed acquisitive growth strategy can deliver \u2013 are not going away.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-notable-nbsp-transactions-december-nbsp-2025-nbsp\"><strong>Notable&nbsp;transactions (December&nbsp;2025):<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In another example of a carrier divesting a distribution business,&nbsp;Canopius&nbsp;announced that its tech-led MGA&nbsp;<strong>Vave<\/strong>&nbsp;has been&nbsp;acquired&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>Acrisure<\/strong>, where it will become part of Acrisure Underwriting. Vave is a UK-headquartered MGA that uses APIs to write&nbsp;mainly cat-exposed&nbsp;business in the U.S.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Clear Group<\/strong>&nbsp;announced that it had continued to extend its geographical reach with its first acquisition in Scotland, where it has added&nbsp;<strong>Cairn Corporate<\/strong>, a commercial broker based in Fife.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Peter Cullum\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>The Broker Investment Group&nbsp;(TBIG)<\/strong>, via The Needham Group,&nbsp;acquired&nbsp;100% of&nbsp;<strong>Black Lion Broking Services<\/strong>, a commercial broker in Surrey.&nbsp;TBIG has been among&nbsp;the most active&nbsp;UK&nbsp;buyers&nbsp;during the year, with only JMG Group having announced more broking deals in 2025.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-other-transactions-december-nbsp-2025-nbsp\"><strong>Other transactions (December&nbsp;2025):<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the second deal of the month involving a Scottish target, Bain-backed&nbsp;<strong>Jensten&nbsp;Group<\/strong>&nbsp;acquired&nbsp;<strong>Broker One<\/strong>, a commercial broker in Glasgow.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>* Note that the&nbsp;full year 2025&nbsp;figure of 99&nbsp;includes&nbsp;a small number of formally&nbsp;unannounced deals&nbsp;identified&nbsp;via Companies House PSC notifications&nbsp;and so in the public domain.&nbsp;We will be publishing a listing of all deals in the year involving a target reporting 10 or more staff in our annual review, available in early Spring.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December is a \u2018short\u2019 month in terms of business days, and&nbsp;in the&nbsp;UK,&nbsp;there is no tax-driven motivation&nbsp;to&nbsp;close&nbsp;deals&nbsp;by year&nbsp;end.&nbsp;Historically,&nbsp;December&nbsp;has&nbsp;been no less active than&nbsp;any other&nbsp;month for&nbsp;insurance&nbsp;distribution mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;A), with an average of more than eight deals a month over the past decade.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;December 2025 saw only four new deals, making it (jointly) the quietest month of 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"mu_industry":[49],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-m-a","mu_industry-insurance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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