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Damien Conover
EUR 101.80 For Business Accounts Only

Monsanto Acquisition Looks on Track After Second Bayer Divestiture

Reuters reported that Bayer is in advanced talks to sell its vegetable seed business to BASF for roughly EUR 1.5 billion. This is the second agricultural-based transaction between the two companies, and we think this additional divestiture will likely be enough to win European Commission approval for Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto. We continue to assign a 75% probability that the acquisition will close as expected. We note that some minor divestitures may still be required to win all regulatory...
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