Valiant Insurance Group is the U.S. specialty insurance arm of Bermuda-based Ariel Holdings.

Southfield, Mich.-based First Mercury Corporation, whose operations include excess and surplus lines insurers and producers, said its principal insurance company--First Mercury Insurance Company--inked a definitive agreement to acquire Valiant for an amount equal to its anticipated tangible book value at closing.

A fourth-quarter closing is expected.

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