Sica | Fletcher (SF), the leading M&A advisor to the insurance industry, has announced that Lou Caltavuturo has joined the firm as Managing Director and will focus on transaction origination in the insurance brokerage space and in adjacent industry verticals.

“We’re excited to have someone of Lou’s caliber join the firm and know that his industry and management experience will be additive to the success and longevity of the firm,” said Al Sica, Managing Partner of SF.

Prior to joining Sica | Fletcher, Lou served as President of Vantage Insurance Partners, a private equity-backed acquirer of insurance distribution firms based in New York. Before co-founding Vantage in 2019, Lou was a Partner and Managing Director at Dowling Hales for 15 years, where he represented insurance brokers and carriers nationwide in sell-side transactions worth well over $1.5 billion in aggregate value.

Preceding his time with Hales, Lou worked at Fox-Pitt, Kelton Inc., a boutique financial services investment banking firm, where he focused on M&A and equity transactions worth in excess of $10 billion. Lou was also a commercial lender with Deutsche Bank focused on the insurance industry and started his career as a central banker with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

“I have known and worked with Lou for almost 20 years, having started the same day with him at Hales in 2004. Lou’s experience of over 25 years as a banker, advisor, and acquirer in the insurance industry will be an invaluable addition to our advisory team which continues to rank as the #1 strategic and financial advisor to insurance entrepreneurs and CEOs,” commented Michael Fletcher, Managing Partner.

Lou received a BA in International Relations and Economics from Colgate University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

About Sica | Fletcher: Sica | Fletcher is a strategic and financial advisory firm focused exclusively on the insurance industry. Founders Michael Fletcher and Al Sica are two of the industry's leading dealmakers who have advised on over $11 billion in insurance agency and brokerage transactions since 2014. According to S&P Global, Sica | Fletcher ranked as the #1 advisor to the insurance industry for 2017-2022 in terms of total deals advised on. Learn more at SicaFletcher.com.

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