The Carlyle Group’s $1.78bn private equity deal with NSM Insurance Group was the Insurance industry’s biggest deal of Q2 2022 as deals worth $6.7bn were announced globally in the quarter, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked a decrease of 65.3% over the previous quarter and a drop of 48.4% when compared with the last four-quarter average of $12.91bn.

In terms of number of deals, the sector saw a drop of 26.32% with 98 deals in Q2 2022 against the average of 133.00 deals in the last four-quarters.

In value terms, North America led the activity with deals worth $4.86bn.

Insurance industry deals in Q2 2022: Top deals

The top five Insurance industry deals accounted for 75.9% of the overall value during Q2 2022.

The combined value of the top five deals stood at $5.05bn, against the overall value of $6.7bn recorded for the quarter.

The top five Insurance industry deals of Q2 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) The Carlyle Group $1.78bn private equity deal with NSM Insurance Group

2) The $1.4bn acquisition of Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group and Pethealth by JAB HoldingLLC

3) Accident Fund Insuranceof America $740m acquisition deal with Miracle Nova I (US)

4) The $620m acquisition of Markel by Berkshire Hathaway

5) Liberty Insurance $519.69m acquisition deal with AmGeneral Insurance