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Gallagher to buy London underwriting agency

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LONDON—Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. will acquire London-based Woodbrook Underwriting Agencies, Gallagher announced Wednesday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Woodbrook is an underwriting agency that specializes in the real estate, distribution, leisure, education and community service industries, Itasca, Ill.-based Gallagher said in a statement.

Woodbrook will merge with OIM Underwriting, Gallagher’s London-based managing general agency, the brokerage said in the statement.

Gallagher this week announced the appointment of insurance brokerage veteran Andrew Agnew to the post of chairman of its international executive board.

Mr. Agnew previously was chairman of JLT Ltd., a division of London-based Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group P.L.C.