M&A Deal Summary

M&G Acquires Ascentric

On May 27, 2020, M&G acquired business services company Ascentric from The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is M&G’s 1st transaction in the Business Services sector.
  • This is M&G’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2020-05-27
Target Ascentric
Sector Business Services
Buyer(s) M&G
Sellers(s) The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Ascentric

Bath, United Kingdom
Ascentric is a digital wrap and wealth management platform, available exclusively to financial advisers and offers a fully integrated online investment management and dealing platform. It also enables advisers to transfer their clients’ assets onto a single platform to provide them with the ability to manage their clients’ financial needs in just one place.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

M&G

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 2017
Sector Financial Services
DESCRIPTION

M&G plc is a savings and investments business that was formed in 2017 through the merger of Prudential plc’s UK and Europe savings and insurance operation and M&G, its wholly-owned international investment manager. As an independent company, the company has a single corporate identity and continues with two customer-facing brands; Prudential for savings and insurance customers in the UK and Europe and for asset management in South Africa and M&G Investments for asset management clients globally.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2020 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

The Royal London Mutual Insurance Society

London, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1861
Sector Insurance
Employees2,922
DESCRIPTION

Royal London is the largest mutual life, pensions and investment company in the UK, with Group funds under management of £83.4 billion. Group businesses serve around 5.3 million policyholders and employ 2,922 people.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Business Services M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: United Kingdom M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2020 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-09-09 The Royal London General Insurance Co.

United Kingdom

The Royal London General Insurance Co. Ltd. is a UK non-life insurance company provides a range of services to both the live and legacy (re)insurance markets.

Sell £12M