FACTBOX-Bailed-out insurer AIG's progress on asset sales
NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) - American International Group
Inc (AIG.N) agreed on Wednesday to sell its Hong Kong consumer
finance and India-based IT services units, two more small steps
in the insurer's bid to sell assets to raise funds to repay
government loans. [ID:nSHA59431]
AIG is pursuing divestitures as part of its plan to pay back U.S. taxpayers, which have a roughly 80 percent stake in AIG, after providing some $180 billion since last September to save the insurer from bankruptcy.
The New York-based company has more than $80 billion in outstanding loans from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury. But net proceeds of asset sales have been slow to make a dent in its debt. In the first seven months of 2009, AIG was able to reach agreements to generate about $2.6 billion in net after-tax proceeds available for repayment of its Federal Reserve loan, it said last Friday.
Below are some of the deals AIG has announced: ASSET BUYER PRICE AIG Finance (Hong Kong) China Construction Bank $70 mln* AIG FP energy investments Various $1.9 bln U.S. life finance biz Unit of Wintrust Financial$679.5 mln Transatlantic Hldgs stake Public offering of shares $1.1 bln Office bldg, Tokyo Nippon Life Insurance $1.2 bln 21st Century Insurance Zurich Financial $1.9 bln Unibanco AIG Seguros Unibanco $820 mln Hartford Steam Munich Re $739 mln AIG Life of Canada BMO Financial Group $263 mln AIG Private Bank Aabar Investments $253 mln * Deal also includes repayment of intragroup debt and deposits of about $557 million
Below are other recent developments that could result in sales of major AIG assets:
* AIG has formed special purpose companies to hold the equity of two of its biggest life insurers, American Life Insurance Co (Alico) and American International Assurance (AIA). The Federal Reserve is taking a preferred stake in both, under a pact that could reduce the insurer's federal debt by about $25 billion. Both businesses could be sold through initial public offerings. [ID:nN15372877] [ID:nBNG10270]
* A third special purpose company was formed to hold the equity of its international property-casualty division, recently renamed Chartis, ahead of the planned sale of a 20 percent stake. [ID:nN27473150]
* AIG is in discussions with a group that includes private equity firms over a sale of its aircraft leasing unit, International Lease Finance Corp (ILFC). [ID:nN05357212]
* A consortium including private equity firm Crestview Partners may buy AIG's asset management business for $300 million to $400 million, according to a source familiar with the matter. [ID:nN03520880]
* AIG's Taiwan life unit Nan Shan Life could attract a bid of about $2 billion, sources have told Reuters. [ID:nHKG359198]
* AIG is in talks to sell two Japanese life insurers, AIG Edison Life Insurance Co and AIG Star Life Insurance. [ID: nWEN0651]
(Reporting by Lilla Zuill)
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