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The Pru must now pay a break fee of £152.5m to AIA for walking away from the deal, plus £81m in fees to City institutions.
Before Pearl's announcement, Resolution said it expected to be required to pay a break fee of around £49m to Friends Provident, which Standard Life will reimburse to the takeover target subject to its offer completing.
The deal will require Barclays to call a general meeting of its shareholders and pay a break fee of $175m to CVC, the private equity firm that had planned to buy the iShares division of BGI.
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However, it's not clear if Par would have to pay a break-up fee if it finds a superior offer and walks away from its deal with TPG.
In 2011, News Corporation paid a break fee of about £38.5m after pulling out of its bid as the phone-hacking scandal engulfed Murdoch's UK newspapers.
Under the terms of the merger agreement, neither NYSE Euronext nor Deutsche Börse will be responsible for paying a break-up fee of 250 million euros, since the deal was scuttled because of regulator opposition.
"Bell wants a decision by then because its the date the buyers can walk away with out paying a break-up fee," said an analyst familiar with the situation who wished to remain anonymous.
If a successful rival bid does emerge Biffa will have to pay a £12m break fee.
Fox has said that if the deal falls through it will pay a £200m break fee.
If his counterbid is successful, Mr Tchenguiz will have to pay a £6m break fee to Oxford Acquisitions, Mr Weston's bidding vehicle.
AbbVie will have to pay a hefty break fee of $1.6bn to Shire if it decides to walk away from the deal.
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