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Speaker 1: for today's afternoon call. And here's Bill Maloney. Good afternoon, Charlie.

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Speaker 1: Stocks are under pressure today, with the Dow currently lower

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Speaker 1: You're listening to taking stock with pin Box and Kathleen

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Speaker 1: has on Bloomberg Radio. Monsanto may have initially rejected buyers

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Speaker 1: sixty two billion dollar takeover bid. Bloomberg First Word reporting

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Speaker 1: that Street Insiders says they are ready to raise their

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Speaker 1: bid to a dollar thirty five or excuse me, a

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Speaker 1: hundred hundred thirty five share. Excuse me, got my decimal

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Speaker 1: point in the wrong place. That's where the focus has

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Speaker 1: been a lot on on when it comes to Wall

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Speaker 1: Street in analysts. But our next guest is looking at

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Speaker 1: a very important part of this, and that's the rigorous

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Speaker 1: review by anti trust regulators that buyer will face in

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Speaker 1: multiple jurisdictions around the world. What does this mean for

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Speaker 1: the deal? Jennifer Jennifer rehe Is. Here's he's senior litigation

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Speaker 1: analysts for Bloomberg Intelligence and she's joining us in our

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Speaker 1: New York studio. Welcome, Jennifer, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: having me. So again, let's put all that price stuff,

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Speaker 1: because if they really want to do this, they're going

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Speaker 1: to come to a price, right. The question is that's

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Speaker 1: just one step then have to get past the regulatars.

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest issue on that those regulators minds? You know,

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest issue is that we're looking at

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Speaker 1: a lot of concentration in what you might want to call,

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Speaker 1: you know, agricultural or chemical areas, so you know, three

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Speaker 1: different deals that are ongoing at the same time that

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Speaker 1: are all global in nature, that deal with various crop

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Speaker 1: protection chemicals and with seeds, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: nervousness about the way the regulators are going to view

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Speaker 1: these deals, given what they've done with Haliburton and Baker

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Speaker 1: and whether this might be deemed too much concentration. Now

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Speaker 1: here's a quote, and I'd like your thoughts and maybe

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Speaker 1: people that are involved in the legal issues of this

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Speaker 1: potential combination. This is coming from Robert Lawrence. He's a

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Speaker 1: of the Center for a Livable Future. He says, the

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Speaker 1: fact is we went from having probably thirty to forty

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Speaker 1: varieties of soybeans to now having one variety making up

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Speaker 1: the business aspect of what this means for farmers, but

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Speaker 1: will focus on increased competion, competition, but a decrease in competition,

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Speaker 1: less innovation, and less choice from mergers. So they'll look

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Speaker 1: at the effect of these deals and whether these deals

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Speaker 1: may continue to contribute to that. They may not look at,

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Speaker 1: you know, they'll look the way things stand today, but

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Speaker 1: they look at will it for will they further contribute

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Speaker 1: and if in fact it will, is there something can

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Speaker 1: that can be done? Are there concessions or divestitures or

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Speaker 1: let's say, changes the licenses that can be agreed to

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Speaker 1: pretty much the same among antitrust regulators around the world.

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Speaker 1: you know, Japan, is it different? It is different? You know,

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Speaker 1: there are many many similarities, but there are also differences.

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Speaker 1: And to start with in this industry, what we've seen

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Speaker 1: so far historically is that these regulators will look at

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Speaker 1: the effect on in this area country by country and

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Speaker 1: not necessarily globally. So, for instance, if the European regulators

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Speaker 1: are looking at how it affects competition European Union wide

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Speaker 1: how does this affect China. There are times when the

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Speaker 1: regulators will say, this is a global market, how does

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Speaker 1: it affect the world the globally? But in this area,

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Speaker 1: at least in the past, historically they have looked at

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Speaker 1: the areas when they've assessed past deals country by country. Well,

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Speaker 1: this consolidation, we're talking about Dow Chemical and DuPont combining,

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Speaker 1: owned company KEM China KIM China, right, So a real

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Speaker 1: concentration in this particular industry group. Right. But again, the regulators,

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Speaker 1: the first thing they ask is where do these companies

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Speaker 1: compete in terms of products and services? And where do

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Speaker 1: KEM China and cin Ginda don't necessarily overlap in every

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Speaker 1: necessarily compete everywhere. And the same thing could be true.

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Speaker 1: Let's say for seeds. You know you have buyer that

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Speaker 1: isn't so big in seeds and bigger and crop protection

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Speaker 1: and and and more complementary perhaps to mind Santo, and

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Speaker 1: you've got to kind of dig into that nitty gritty

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Speaker 1: affect some of these crops, because if you're only depending

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Speaker 1: the business. It will devastate the agricultural community. Absolutely. You know,

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Speaker 1: they dig in hard, these regulators. That's why these things

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Speaker 1: taken here. They look at everything. Yes, or notice, let's

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Speaker 1: go through the steel. Do they make it past just

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Speaker 1: I think yes, with with some concessions. I'm thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for coming in and spending time with us.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer Rees, senior litigation analysts for Bloomberg Intelligence. Shares of

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Speaker 1: Monsanto they are up about two and a half percent

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