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Dai-Ichi Life to buy Protective Life for $5.7 billion - filing

Published 04/06/2014, 01:42
Updated 04/06/2014, 02:20

TOKYO (Reuters) - Dai-Ichi Life Insurance Co will buy U.S. peer Protective Life for $5.708 billion ( 3.4 billion pounds), funding part of that by issuing up to 250 billion yen in new shares, according to a regulatory filing made on Wednesday.

The move was widely expected after media reports of the impending deal earlier this week. A source told Reuters on Monday that Dai-ichi Life was in advanced to talks to buy Protective Life for more than $5 billion and that it would finance part of that by raising money externally, including through the issuance of new shares.

(Reporting by Emi Emoto and Taiga Uranaka; Writing by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Chris Gallagher)

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