Sandell News

The tussle between AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. and EXOR SpA for control of Bermuda-based reinsurer PartnerRe Ltd. could be drawing to a close after a bidding war that began four months ago. AXIS and PartnerRe improved the terms of their …

Sandell Asset Management Corp., the activist hedge-fund firm, amplified its criticism of PartnerRe Ltd. for shunning the unsolicited $6.8 billion takeover offer from EXOR SpA that would break up the reinsurer’s planned merger with AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. “We believe …