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DLG shareholders approve Aviva’s £3.7bn takeover

2025-03-11T09:01:00+00:00By

A vote on the deal was recently held

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Aviva hopes to create ‘standout specialty market’ in 2025 using Probitas purchase

2025-03-05T07:00:00+00:00By

Last year’s M&A transaction has enabled the united company to write ‘accounts that neither Aviva nor Probitas on their own would have written prior to [the] deal’, says UKGI chief executive

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DLG says it ‘cannot be certain about actions of Aviva’ after £3.7bn takeover agreed

2025-03-04T09:22:00+00:00By

DLG says it is ’beyond [directors’] control as to whether Aviva would undertake any restructuring of the group’s legal entities’

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Winslow’s Aviva statement as DLG delivers £395m increase in ongoing operating profit

2025-03-04T07:54:00+00:00By

’The turnround strategy, launched in July, has made a marked difference to the company’s performance,’ says chief executive

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Catch up on insurers’ 2024 full-year financial results

2025-03-03T09:00:00+00:00

Insurance Times rounds up all of the coverage around insurers’ full-year financial results for 2024, published in Q1 2025

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Aviva reveals when it expects DLG acquisition to complete

2025-02-28T08:02:00+00:00By

Aviva says the acquisition is progressing in line with expectations

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Briefing: What the Aviva and Direct Line mega-deal means for UKGI

2025-03-13T08:00:00+00:00By

Shareholders have approved Aviva’s £3.7bn takeover of DLG, and the deal looks set for completion in mid-2025, but what does the acquisition mean for the two businesses? And how will it impact the wider market?

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Why 2024 was a transformational year for UK M&A

2025-02-25T08:00:00+00:00By

The insurer and broker sectors both recorded standout acquisition volume and values last year – however, industry experts do not see the same trends for 2025, with January providing the lowest monthly M&A completion figure since 2017

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Briefing: Why is Aviva so keen on taking over DLG?

2024-12-12T09:00:00+00:00By

Aviva has secured a preliminary agreement with DLG over a potential acquisition

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Briefing: Will the DLG board stay loyal to Winslow as Aviva goes on ‘charm offensive’?

2024-12-05T09:45:00+00:00By

DLG rejected a takeover attempt from Aviva, saying the offer ’substantially undervalued the company’

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