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Published June 18, 2009 at 9:14 AM
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 American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) has chosen Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) to take its Asian life insurance unit, American International Assurance Co. Ltd., or AIA, public in 2010. The IPO is expected to raise between $5 billion and $10 billion. The choice of Deutsche Bank came out of left field because the insurer's restructuring coordinators were also in the running to be selected for the IPO. Also competing for the AIG IPO were Blackstone
Group LP (NYSE:BX), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) and
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS). AIG has worked with all of these companies during its restructuring. Since this will be the largest IPO in Hong Kong since April 2007, coordinators and bookrunners could earn around $150 million in fees, according to Reuters. Why Deutsche Bank? Apparently the bank has led some major Asian IPOs in the past. Reuters reports some of those IPOs include: - China Life's $3.48 billion IPO in December 2003
- Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's $19.1 billion IPO in October 2006
The IPO is the insurer's latest attempt to pay off the $180 billion it owes the government. So far the insurer has raised about $6.7 billion from asset sales, according to Bloomberg. Those asset sales include: Here are updates on the other asset sales AIG is working on: - A consortium including Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. of Singapore and Richard Li's Pacific
Century Group and Franklin Resources Inc.'s are rumored to be finalizing a deal to buy AIG's asset management unit, AIG
Investments, which has about $100 billion under
management, and the insurer expects to get as much as $500 million for
the asset. There were rumors that Macquarie Group Ltd. was finalizing a bid for the fund management arm of AIG, The Australian reports. Other bidders for the unit are thought to include Creastview Partners, Ashmore
Investment Management Ltd., Hellman & Friedman LLC, Rhone Group LLC
and TA Associates, as well as mutual fund manager Franklin Templeton
Investments and asset manager Southgate Alternative
Investments, according to the Wall Street Journal. Religare Enterprises has also bid for AIG Investments, according to the Journal. The unit was expected to get bids
anywhere between $400 million and $800 million. AIG had originally
hoped to finish the sale by the end of May, according to reports, but
the process could run longer.
- AIG's Advisor Group division, housed within AIG's
retirement services division, which consists of three broker-dealers --
SagePoint Financial Inc. of Phoenix, FSC Securities Corp. of Atlanta
and Royal Alliance Associates Inc. of New York -- could sell for about
$200 million. Private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc.
and Warburg Pincus have dropped out of the bidding for the division, leaving GTCR Golder Rauner LLC and several new bidders,
The Deal's Michael Rudnick reported. However, the three broker-dealers have lost nearly 14% of their advisers since February.
- The
sale of AIG's aircraft leasing unit, International Lease Finance Corp.,
or ILFC, could be finished soon. Greenbriar Equity Group LLC and Onex
Corp. may be closing in on the acquisition of AIG's ILFC. The Financial Times had reported that the insurer has received second-round bids from
private equity firms Thomas H. Lee Partners and Carlyle Group, Onex
Corp. and Greenbriar Equity Group, as well as an unidentified third
bidder. As Dealscape
previously noted, ILFC has a book value of $7.5 billion as of Sept. 30,
and bids were supposed to come in at around $5 billion. However, Reuters
is reporting that the unit may sell for under $5 billion. The figure is
not surprising considering AIG needs to repay $100 billion in debt and
does not have the cash to meet debt obligations of $33 billion for
ILFC's operations in 2009 due to the struggling airline business
and loss of its federal commercial paper lending facility after key
credit ratings were cut. The FT reported that the
government may even extend AIG a $5 billion loan to divest ILFC, which
should just about cover the purchase for the private equity firm that
decides to buy the unit. The credit line would come from the $180
billion bailout the government has already extended to the insurer.
- The AIG Global Real Estate fund management business
has around $12.4 billion in assets and $5.2 billion in equity capital.
The unit could be sold
for about $9 billion. Interested bidders could include BlackRock Inc.
and Blackstone Group LP (which might be a conflict because Blackstone
is advising). Included in that is its Japanese headquarters in Tokyo,
which may bring in more than $1 billion.
- Maria Woehr
Also see: I-banks line up for AIG Hong Kong IPOAIG sells off real estateAIG's headquarters: A landmark?
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