Robin Aaronson of LECG is a former Director of Coopers & Lybrand and was the coordinating partner during the investigation of the merger with Price Waterhouse. Here, he analyses the real motivations behind the Commission's clearance
Thursday, 1 October 1998
Featured In: October / November 1998 (Vol. 1 Iss. 5)
'The Commission was faced with a choice between blocking the whole merger, provoking another confrontation with the US authorities, on the basis of a few isolated concerns, or finding an intellectually respectable basis for clearing the deal.'
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