Japanese insurer Mitsui Sumitomo to buy UK’s Amlin for £3.4bn

Deal a premium of about 36 per cent over Amlin’s closing price of 492.5 pence

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance said it had agreed to buy British insurer Amlin for 670 pence per share in cash.

The deal with Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, values Amlin at about £3.46 billion .

The deal is at a premium of about 36 per cent over Amlin’s closing price of 492.5 pence on September 7th.

- Reuters