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Exhibit 635

United States v. Bayer AG et al.; Response to Public Comments (84 FR 1493)

Exhibit 635 ยท Federal Register notice

United States v. Bayer AG et al.; Response to Public Comments (84 FR 1493)

order a retrospective study of the effects of the merger on competition two years after transfer of the divestiture assets has begun

Case No. 1:18-cv-01241 (D.D.C.). Commenters included five state attorneys general (California, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Oregon), NRDC, the Consumer Federation of America and Syngenta. Syngenta said the decree "remedies many of the most complex and difficult anticompetitive aspects of the transaction"; a former FTC remedies official said the divestiture "appears to be as robust a divestiture as might be imagined"; the Consumer Federation argued the merged firm should have divested stronger assets. Entry date of the final judgment not found.

Source
DOJ Antitrust Division
Date
4 February 2019
Quoted from
84 FR 1497 (comment of the State Attorneys General)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-04/html/2019-00810.htm
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding AGR-5.11
Primary record In 2017 and 2018 antitrust agencies cleared ChemChina-Syngenta, Dow-DuPont and Bayer-Monsanto only with divestitures. DOJ called the roughly $9 billion Bayer divestiture to BASF the largest merger divestiture ever required by the United States.
Finding AGR-5.12
Open question No retrospective study of the Bayer-Monsanto divestiture's effect on competition has been located.