No losers as Cinven and GIC buy Miller from WTW, say brokers
Brokers have hailed private equity house Cinven and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC buying Miller from Willis Towers Watson as a deal with no losers.
The takeover, for an undisclosed sum, is expected to complete in the first quarter of next year.
“I don’t [believe] there are any losers in this,” said Paul Anscombe, CEO of Seventeen Group. “The
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