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Token tweaks won't save bad mergers, Lynch says after challenge to Halliburton-Baker Hughes deal

By Richard Vanderford ( April 6, 2016, 18:42 GMT | Insight) -- The US won't settle challenges to mergers in exchange for token tweaks from companies, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said, vowing to prosecute suits "to the very end." The attorney general made her remarks shortly after the US Justice Department sued to block Halliburton's plan to buy rival Baker Hughes to form an oilfield services behemoth.The US won't settle challenges to mergers in exchange for token tweaks, like divestitures, from companies, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said, vowing to prosecute suits "to the very end." ...

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