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Knock-backs make thirsty work for AB InBev bankers

Seven years after InBev took over Anheuser-Busch in 2008's biggest European M&A deal, advisers are again licking their lips

Knock-backs make thirsty work for AB InBev bankers
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Seven years after InBev took over Anheuser-Busch in a $60 billion deal that was Europe’s largest M&A transaction of 2008, the combined brewing group has its sights set on another record.

AB InBev broke cover on October 7 with a near-$120 billion tilt for Coors maker SABMiller that would be the second-biggest takeover of a European company in history behind UK telecoms company Vodafone's $171 billion acquisition of Germany's Mannesmann in 1999.

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