{"id":24354,"date":"2026-03-03T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/24354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:00:13","slug":"zurich-insurance-confirms-11-billion-beazley-takeover-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/24354\/","title":{"rendered":"Zurich Insurance Confirms $11 Billion Beazley Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\"><a data-type=\"company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/CH\/XSWX\/ZURN\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zurich Insurance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/CH\/XSWX\/ZURN\" class=\"css-1rb2hzw-ChicletStyle e1vl9ktx2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZURN -6.68%decrease; red down pointing triangle<\/a> and <a data-type=\"company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/UK\/XLON\/BEZ\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beazley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/UK\/XLON\/BEZ\" class=\"css-1rb2hzw-ChicletStyle e1vl9ktx2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BEZ -0.08%decrease; red down pointing triangle<\/a> reached a deal to merge, ending a period of uncertainty over a deal that values Beazley at around $11 billion.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1akm6h5-Paragraph e1e4oisd0\">The two companies had already agreed to terms at the start of last month, in a cash deal that would see the Swiss insurer take over the smaller London-listed cyber insurer for 13.35 pounds a share. That would give the company an enterprise value of around 8.2 billion pounds, or $11.06 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zurich Insurance ZURN -6.68%decrease; red down pointing triangle and Beazley BEZ -0.08%decrease; red down pointing triangle reached a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[128],"tags":[1766,6271,6270,322,6280,6277,6283,6274,1126,6272,6273,197,6275,2597,6264,6288,244,15150,1767,6263,6265,6269,6287,17,6278,6281,6267,6279,51,219,249,6282],"class_list":["post-24354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich-insurance","tag-acquisitions","tag-acquisitions-mergers","tag-acquisitions-mergers-shareholdings","tag-beazley","tag-bez-ln","tag-ce-industry-news-filter","tag-chzurn","tag-content-types","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-actions","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-europe","tag-factiva-filters","tag-financial-services","tag-full-line-insurance","tag-industrial-news","tag-insurance","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260302007379","tag-mergers","tag-newsplus","tag-non-life-insurance","tag-ownership-changes","tag-shareholdings","tag-switzerland","tag-synd","tag-ukbez","tag-western-europe","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com","tag-zurich","tag-zurich-insurance","tag-zurich-insurance-group","tag-zurn-eb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}