Alliant hires former WTW M&A leaders

Alliant Insurance Services Inc. announced Tuesday that it has hired Mark Rusas, a former longtime M&A leader at Willis Towers Watson PLC, as executive vice president, managing director of M&A at Alliant Specialty.

Mr. New York-based Rusas will co-lead the specialty M&A practice with Jonathan Gilbert, Managing Director, and Daniel Schoenberg, Executive Vice President. He reports to Michael Cusack, executive vice president, senior executive at Alliant Specialty.

Mr. Rusas was previously head of the private equity and transaction solutions group within Corporate Risk and Broking, North America at WTW.

Peter Miraglia, another former M&A leader at WTW, has been named executive vice president of M&A at Alliant Specialty.

Mr. Miraglia, based in New York, previously served as director of operations in WTW’s M&A group. He will focus on insurance due diligence and provide property/duty and management liability coverages for private equity transactions in the newly created role.