Equity innovation of the year: Allianz €2.2 billion funding of tender offer

The German financial institution invented a unique means of avoiding an unwanted share dilution.

At a glance:
Deal size:
€2.2 billion
Bookrunners: Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Goldman Sachs
Date: September 11, 2005

In September 2005 Allianz sought to take full control of its majority-owned Italian subsidiary, Riunione Adriatica di Sicurta (RAS), but found itself facing a difficult but not uncommon problem. It needed to raise equity in order to fund its €5.7 billion cash tender offer but could not be certain exactly how much it would need, as this would depend on how much of its offer would eventually be taken up by RAS’s other shareholders.

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