By Colin Kellaher
MetLife has struck a deal to buy PineBridge Investments, a global asset manager with about $100 billion in assets under management, from billionaire Richard Li's Pacific Century Group for up to $1.2 billion.
MetLife on Monday said it will pay $800 million in cash at closing for PineBridge, along with $200 million subject to achieving certain 2025 financial metrics and $200 million subject to a multi-year earnout.
The New York provider of insurance and financial services said the deal bolsters its MetLife Investment Management unit, which has more than $600 billion in assets under management, by adding significant scale and broadening the unit's global offerings and distribution reach.
MetLife said more than half of the client assets being acquired in the PineBridge deal are held by investors outside of the U.S., with roughly one-third held in Asia.
The company said the deal, which excludes PineBridge's private-equity funds group business and its joint venture in China, is slated to close next year.
Pacific Century acquired PineBridge, which was founded in 1996 as the investment advisory and asset management business of AIG, in 2010.
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(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 23, 2024 08:53 ET (13:53 GMT)
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