Hartford

By The Lawyer 23 October 2000 00:00

Hartford Financial Services Group sells subsidiary Zwolsche Algemeene to Allianz subsidiary Assurances Générales de France (AGF). Hartford advised by Allen & Overy‘s UK, Dutch and Luxembourg offices (Mark Wippell, Maartin Muller and Marc Feider). AGF represented by Bredin Prat & Associés (Richard Shepherd) and Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot.

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