LBO Signposts - LBO acquirers rarely draw antitrust challenges but they happen nonetheless. Hicks Muse Tate & Furst found this out when the FTC opposed a portfolio company that owned Vlasic pickles and wanted to add the Claussen brand. The wider ramifications are that regulators fearing anticompetitive effects can blow the whistle even on consolidations in a no-growth, fragmented industry where ...
Year of publication:
2002
Published in:
Mergers & acquisitions. - New York, NY : Investment Dealers' Digest, ISSN 0026-0010, ZDB-ID 8628555. - Vol. 37.2002, 12, p. 29