Transactions

Cowles & Connell

Acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Cowles & Connell in its sale to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.  Established in 1892, Cowles & Connell is a managing general agent and wholesale insurance broker which provides excess and surplus, property/casualty, professional business liability and other specialty insurance products and services to their independent retail insurance broker clients throughout the United States.  Jo Ann Peri and her associates will continue to operate from their locations in Brewster, NY; Meriden, CT; Westampton, NJ and Wilbraham, MA under the direction of Joel Cavaness, President of Risk Placement Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.