This Case is about CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
PUBLICATION DATE: July 27, 2012 PRODUCT #: 313017-HCB-ENG
In the month of November of 2011 Transatlantic Holdings, Incrporation, a worldwide property and casualty reinsurance business, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, stopping “the most frenzied takeover conflict” of 2011, which involved competitions, Warren Buffett’s National Indemnity, and private equity investors. The deal with Alleghany came after a several other unsuccessful bids for the business, one that was hostile, as well as Transatlantic’s failed attempt at a merger of equals.
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