Prudential and AIG were locked in talks yesterday trying to thrash out a rescue price for the US insurer's Asian businesses, which the UK life assurer had agreed to buy for $35.5bn before an investor revolt threatened to derail the deal.
Tidjane Thiam, chief executive of Prudential, was in the US meeting investors and in contact with Robert Benmosche, chief executive of AIG.
Advisers to the two sides were attempting to reach a compromise that would be acceptable to the ultimate owners of both businesses – the US Treasury and the New York Federal Reserve on one side and Prudential's investors on the other.
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