AIG house approves Asian hold up section sale to Prudential

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The trademark of British hold up insurer Prudential is seen on their building, in London Oct 21, 2008.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - American International Group Inc"s (AIG.N) house authorized the sale of the Asian hold up word commercial operation to Britain"s Prudential Plc (PRU.L) for $35.5 billion, a source informed with the have a difference pronounced on Sunday.

Deals

Prudential, Britain"s largest insurer, will compensate about $25 billion in money and the rest in equity, that could embody elite stock, for AIG"s American International Assurance (AIA), the source said, disappearing to be identified since the understanding is not open yet.

A deal, in what would be the largest item sale for insurer AIG, could be voiced as shortly as Monday, the source said.

Prudential declined to comment. AIG was not rught away available.

AIG, that is scarcely 80 percent owned by the U.S. supervision and is perplexing to compensate behind taxpayers after a $182.3 billion bailout, had been formulation an primary open charity for AIA in Hong Kong, when Prudential jumped in with an offer.

It would be one of the largest abroad deals to date for a British organisation and have Prudential one of the greatest insurers in Asia.

Prudential operates in thirteen Asian markets where it has some-more than eleven million hold up customers. Asia, that accounted for 44 percent of Pru"s increase in 2008, is additionally seen as the engine of the group"s destiny growth.

It would additionally assistance AIG have a poignant hole in the superb check from the U.S. government, that has a $16 billion elite seductiveness in a special role car that binds AIA.

AIG is additionally in modernized talks to sell an additional large unfamiliar hold up word unit, American Life Insurance Co, to MetLife Inc (MET.N) in a rounded off $15 billion deal. Those talks hinge on a taxation issue that the dual sides are perplexing to resolve.

So far, AIG has voiced some-more than dual dozen deals to sell resources for over $11.9 billion.

(Editing by Leslie Adler)

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