Aviva has agreed to buy Friends Life for £5.6bn in a deal that will create the UK's largest insurance, savings and asset management firm.
Shareholders in Friends Life are being offered 394p per share - roughly 8% more than what they are currently worth - if they support the deal. They would own about 26% of the enlarged group. ...
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