NEW YORK, May 31, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFSI) (the "Company" or “AmTrust”) today announced that it has completed the purchase of N.V, Nationale Borg-Maatschappij and its affiliates (“Nationale Borg”) from Egeria and HAL Investments for €161 million in cash. Nationale Borg is a 120 year old, Amsterdam-based international direct writer and reinsurer of surety and trade credit insurance in over 70 countries. In the past 12 months ending March 31, 2016, Nationale Borg generated premiums of €94 million.
“We believe the acquisition of Nationale Borg establishes AmTrust as a world class surety and trade credit insurance operation,” said AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. President and CEO, Barry Zyskind. “Combining Nationale Borg’s well-established and profitable international surety and trade credit insurance operations with AmTrust’s growing international and domestic surety insurance business is expected to create a formidable presence in the market that should continue to achieve profitable growth and benefit from the significant resources of AmTrust.”
About AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.
AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in New York City, offers specialty property and casualty insurance products, including workers' compensation, commercial automobile, general liability and extended service and warranty coverage through its primary insurance subsidiaries rated “A” (Excellent) by A.M. Best. For more information about AmTrust visit www.amtrustgroup.com.
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