Global Risk Partners (GRP)
Since launch in 2013 Global Risk Partners has grown to employ 2000 staff who control or influence over £1.8bn premium. The group comprises a retail division of specialist and community insurance brokers operating from over 100 offices around the UK and Ireland, focused on delivering an expert, personal service to their clients alongside Lloyd’s and London market brokers Lonmar and Ropner. In July 2022, US broker Brown & Brown acquired GRP.
GRP features in the Insurance Age Top 75 UK Brokers listing, and the Insurance Age Top 100 Insurance Brokers 2021 listing. Find out what other companies made the cut.
US giant Brown & Brown to buy GRP
Consolidator confirms no changes to management team, headcount and brands under new owners, the sixth largest broker in the world.
GRP-owned County Group buys PG Insurance
The consolidator ramps up its acquisition plans with fifth deal of the year.
GRP-owned Premier Healthcare makes third buy
The broker is to acquire the business and assets of Amba Care and Wellbeing (Amba C&W).
GRP to buy majority stake in Hamilton Fraser
Consolidator set to make third purchase of the year.
GRP's Marshall Wooldridge snaps up Rotherham-based broker
Goldthorpe, a family-owned business which writes both commercial and personal lines, is the fifth broker bought by Marshall Wooldridge since it became GRP's Yorkshire hub in 2016.
GRP's Alan & Thomas buys in Bournemouth
BIG Insurance is the broker's third deal since becoming GRP's southern hub.
Review of the year: GRP's Chris Sime
Chris Sime of Global Risk Partners discusses the "bouncebackability" of insurance broking how the market will evolve in 2022.
GRP’s Alan & Thomas buys Aquilla
Alan & Thomas is the southern hub business for Global Risk Partners.
Profile: Licence to chill - GRP's group CEO Mike Bruce
GRP’s Mike Bruce tells Ida Axling how an early career working with nuclear weapons has given him a sense of perspective in his latest role, running one of the UK’s largest broker consolidators
GRP-owned Premier Choice Healthcare buys PMI broker
Deal for Equity Health Solutions is PCH's second since becoming part of GRP in 2020.
Movo exits GRP’s Hedron network
MD Lea Cheesbrough said the franchise, which also has its own network, wanted to focus on independence.
GRP takes stake in Hedron member
All Med Pro is GRP's first minority investment with a network member.
GRP completes deal for WTW's Northern Ireland business
The deal was announced in July and brings £65m in GWP to GRP's Northern Ireland business ABL Group.
People Moves: 13-17 September 2021
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GRP’s Gauntlet targets £25m in GWP
The business acquired Three Sixty for an undisclosed sum earlier this year.
GRP’s Higos buys in Penzance
The South West hub has acquired Web Shaw which trades as Jacksons.
GRP takes retail CEO from Marsh
Duncan Carter will report to GRP group CEO, Mike Bruce.
Gauntlet buys Three Sixty in first deal under GRP ownership
Three Sixty is based in Bolton and is a specialist private client broker.
ABL boss targets further expansion after WTW buy
CEO Maurice Boyd tells Insurance Age how the recent WTW purchase came about and outlines the GRP-owned firm's future ambitions.
GRP buys WTW's Northern Ireland business
The portfolio will be integrated into GRP-owned ABL Group, doubling the Belfast-based broker's GWP to £107m.
DCJ Insurance acquires Real Insurance
It is the broker's second deal since it was bought by GRP in 2018.
Hedron adds Zurich to panel
The move follows Markel joining the panel of the Global Risk Partners network last month.
In-depth - SMEs: The expectation gap
The pandemic has changed the way many businesses percieve insurance, but, as Sam Barrett reports, brokers are ideally placed to help SMEs get the right covers in place going forward
In-depth - SMEs: All change for small businesses
With retailers turning from physical shops to online sales and the hospitality sector focusing on deliveries and outdoor dining, Sam Barrett looks at how insurance needs have changed in the pandemic