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Aon Buys Willis – It’s Said to Be World’s Largest Insurance Deal

Mihir Gupta by Mihir Gupta
March 11, 2020
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Source - reinsureance.ws

  • For $30 billion, the deal creates a combines company that will overtake market leader Marsh & McLennan in terms of value.

Monday witnessed the world’s largest insurance deal between Aon Plc and Willis Towers Watson for approximately $30 million. The deal is said to give Aon Plc more pricing power.

The deal unifies the 2nd and 3rd largest brokers globally into a company worth almost $80 billion at a time when insurances are facing huge claims along with coronavirus threats and climate change.

The world’s largest insurance deal creates a combined company that is said to overtake March & Mclennan – the current market leader in value.

Since 2008, Aon and Willis witnessed the worst day of trading with their shares falling 10% and 6% respectively. The dip in share prices is said to come after the collapse in the oil prices.

It’s Not About Today, Next-Week, It’s About Long Term:

We don’t every day come across the world’s largest insurance deal. But when anything like that happens, we know that something big is coming up.

US-based Aon and Willis put together large insurance deals for clients that involve a number of insurers ranging from airlines to large sports events.

The world’s largest insurance deal between Aon and Willis is said to provide investment and employee benefits advice, broker deals for reinsurers who share part of insurers’ exposure to potentially large losses like hurricanes in return for part of the premium.

Last year Aon confirmed that in March it was in talks with Willi Towers before putting the deal aside, for the time being, no further reasons given.

“The insurers and re-insurers are unlikely to be happy about the deal given the scale of the two players coming together.” – Ben Cohen an analyst at Investec.

What Are the Terms of World’s Largest Insurance Deal?

Willing shareholders are said to receive 1.08 Aon shares which are around $232 per share as of Aon’s Friday close. The offer represents a premium of 16% to Willis’ closing price on Friday.

Aon’s shareholders will own around 63% and Willis investors about 37% of the combined company. The deal is said to add Aon’s adjusted earnings per share in the 1st year, with full savings of $800 million achieved in the 3rd year and to close in the 1st half of 2021.

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Shares of Aon Plc (Google Finance)

Aon will be headquartered in London and will be led by CEO Case and CFO Davies. Willies CEO John Haley will become executive chairman.

Let’s know about the 2 companies individually who just gave us the world’s largest insurance deal.

About Aon:

Aon Plc is a behemoth global professional services firm that sells a variety of financial risk- mitigation products, including insurance, pension, and health insurance.

It’s history dates back to 1982 when Ryan Insurance Group merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America. The company was then renamed to Aon Plc in 1987 which means “one”

About Willis Towers Watson:

An Irish-domiciled multinational risk management insurance brokerage and advisory Willis Tower Watson. The company was formed as a merger of equals between London based Willis Group Holdings and Arlington, VA based Towers Watson & Co.

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Shares of Willis Towers Watson (Google Finance)

Summing Up:

There is no end to the potential of insurance firms. While the world today is stuck with diseases with coronavirus outbreak and several others which keep popping up from time to time, insurance companies are said to benefit from time to time.

However, with the world’s largest insurance deal, we are yet to see will it be a huge success or will be just another deal that happened to cut down the competition and distribute the customer base.

Aon Plc confirming that the deal is not to be looked at today or in a week, but it’s a long term one, we will definitely see something good coming out of the world’s biggest insurance deal.

On behalf of Next Big Brand, we wish all the best to the two entities joining hands.

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