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Charles F. (Rick) Rule Quoted Regarding DOJ’s Approach to Private Equity
Rule Garza Howley LLP Chair Charles F. (Rick) Rule was quoted today in a Financial Times article regarding the shifting approach antitrust regulators are taking to private equity or “financial” buyers in transactions and divestiture remedies.
— “The world was divided into financial buyers and strategic buyers, and the antitrust agencies typically focused most of their time and effort on strategic buyers,” said Rick Rule, a top antitrust lawyer at Rule Garza Howley and former colleague of Kanter at Paul Weiss.
“Private equity should now be aware that divide no longer necessarily exists, because there’s an awareness that even traditional antitrust problems can come up in the context of big private equity companies, particularly as they buy multiple players in the same space.”