American International Group Inc. agreed to sell an Asian life insurance unit with 20 million customers to Prudential Plc for $35.5 billion in the company’s biggest divestiture since it was bailed out by the U.S.
Prudential, Britain’s biggest insurer, will pay $25 billion in cash and $10.5 billion in stock and other securities for AIA Group Ltd., the London-based insurer said in a statement today. The insurer said it plans to raise $20 billion in a rights offering and sell about $5 billion of bonds to finance the cash part of its offer.
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