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Bloomberg: Dow, DuPont expect EU formal statement of merger objections

Published 11/15/2016, 01:12 PM
Bloomberg: Dow, DuPont expect EU formal statement of merger objections
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  • Dow Chemical (DOW -1.5%) and DuPont (DD -1.6%) expect to receive formal objections to their $60B merger from European Union regulators as soon as next month, Bloomberg reports.
  • The European Commission in Brussels is poised to send the complaint in December, and could describe how the merger could reduce competition in areas such as crop protection, seeds and certain petrochemicals, according to the report.
  • Institute for Statecraft analyst Alan Riley believes the merger is in much more trouble than ChemChina's prospective deal to buy Syngenta, as "they are both funding R&D in the same fields, so there is a real issue of innovation loss from the deal" that might be difficult to eliminate with guarantees to regulators promising good behavior.

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