Zurich launches M&A unit

ZURICH, Switzerland—Zurich Financial Services Group has launched a unit to help customers whose companies are merging with or acquiring another.

The unit has started operating in the United States and will operate worldwide, via offices in London and Zurich, by the fourth quarter of the year. Zurich said in a statement.

Thomas Gamble—previously an executive vice president at New York-based Arch Insurance Group, a unit of Hamilton, Bermuda-based Arch Capital Group Ltd.—has been named president of the unit.