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Watsa, directly, and indirectly through 1109519 Ontario Limited, The Sixty Two Investment Company Limited and 810679 Ontario Ltd., owns the controlling equity voting interest of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited ("Fairfax"). [7] He owns roughly 10% of Fairfax, which accounts for 99% of his personal wealth.
Watsa resigned in August 2013, but kept his investment in the company. On 23 September 2013, BlackBerry announced that it had signed a letter of intent to be acquired by Fairfax Financial Holdings in a $4.7 billion deal. [14] Fairfax Financial Holdings is "the largest insurer of the for-profit bail industry in the U.S." [15]
It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial, a financial services holding company. OdysseyRe operates through four divisions: Americas, EuroAsia, London Market and US Insurance. OdysseyRe offers a range of property, casualty, surety and credit, marine and energy, aviation and space reinsurance products from offices around the world.
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In 2010, Fairfax Financial agreed to buy Zenith in a deal that valued the company at around $1.3 billion US. [2] [6] The deal was negotiated by Fairfax CEO Prem Watsa. [4] A group of Zenith shareholders sought to prevent the sale by going to court, but a court dismissed their claims on April 22, 2010. [4]
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The committee included Edmund Barton, Australia's 1st Prime Minister, managing director John Street of the Street family and chairman James Fairfax of the Fairfax family. The Perpetual Trustee Company (Limited) was officially formed in 1886, originally based at 105 Pitt Street Sydney. John Pewtress, an accountant, became the first employee.