ANV Unveils LaunchPad Incubator and Announces MGA Launch With Hastings Tax Underwriters

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
ANV Group Holdings Ltd. (“ANV” or “the Company”), a global insurance intermediary platform, today announced the launch of ANV LaunchPad, an MGA incubator designed to partner with experienced underwriters to build scalable, long-term specialty insurance businesses.

Through ANV LaunchPad, ANV offers a structured, end‑to‑end process for launching new MGAs. ANV LaunchPad provides full-service support for underwriting teams including capacity placement and structuring, product and policy development, and technology and systems integration. The incubator is designed to create an efficient and rapid go-to-market time horizon by ensuring operational readiness and disciplined risk management while allowing new leadership teams to focus on underwriting, distribution, and building enduring businesses.

Hastings Tax Underwriters is the first MGA established through the LaunchPad incubator. Hastings specializes in tax liability insurance and is led by Craig Farber and Russ Young, Co‑Presidents of Hastings. Farber served as Managing Director and Co‑Head of U.S. Tax Planning & Advisory at Goldman Sachs. Young worked in the tax controversy groups of Mayer Brown and Baker McKenzie. Since launch, Hastings has focused on tax liability risks associated with complex transactions and operations and has progressed through its initial underwriting phase, supported by the operational and structural framework provided through LaunchPad.

“LaunchPad is a natural extension of how we build businesses at ANV,” said Adam Karkowsky, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ANV. “We partner with proven underwriters who want to build and own differentiated MGAs while operating within a broader established infrastructure. LaunchPad allows us to do that in a disciplined, repeatable way, while preserving the independence and entrepreneurial focus that underpin successful MGA businesses. Hastings also reflects the caliber of underwriting leadership we look to support through LaunchPad, bringing deep technical expertise and experience in complex specialty risks.”

“ANV LaunchPad provided a clear structure for bringing Hastings to market while allowing us to focus on underwriting and building out the business,” said Craig Farber, Co‑President of Hastings Tax Underwriters. “We have developed the business quickly with significant assistance from ANV LaunchPad and expect to continue to build our presence in the tax liability market with thanks to that framework.”

ANV was established in December 2025 following a strategic transaction in which AmTrust Financial Services and Blackstone Credit & Insurance spun off a portfolio of AmTrust’s managing general agencies and fee‑based businesses into an independent company, ANV Group Holdings Ltd.

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About ANV Group Holding Ltd.

ANV Group Holdings Ltd. (“ANV”) is an independent, global insurance intermediary platform operating across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.

The company brings together a portfolio of established specialist MGAs, providing a diversified range insurance products. For more information about ANV, visit http://www.anvinsurance.com.