- CVS Health Corp. won a skeptical federal judge’s approval for its $68 billion takeover of Aetna Inc., removing the last obstacle to a deal that adds a huge health-insurance business to its nationwide network of pharmacies and prescription-drug benefit programs. Judge Richard Leon, the same judge who cleared AT&T’s $85 billion merger with Time Warner in 2018, signed off on a settlement agreement reached last year with U.S. antitrust enforcers. Opponents of the merger argued the combination would harm competition. (BN via BLAW) The two companies were represented by attorneys from Williams & Connolly, Dechert, and Davis Polk ...
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