Every firm is a potential target as Ace completes second largest deal in insurance history
UK insurance companies have been warned that no firm is immune from purchase as companies feel the need to ‘eat each other’s lunch’ to solve organic growth challenges in what has been labelled a ‘mad’ consolidation environment.
This follows Ace's $28.3bn (£18.1bn) purchase of Chubb, which came as a shock to industry-watchers, only days after Willis annouced its merger with Towers Watson, and according to Dealogic is the
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