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Dissenting Statement of Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch in the Matter of Pool Corporation
20120159: Cigna Corporation; HealthSpring, Inc.
20120069: Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners; TCV IV, L.P.
ScanScout, Inc.; Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment; Proposed Consent Agreement
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request (Negative Option Rule)
20120150: Sector Performance Fund, LP; Stonehenge Opportunity Fund II, LP
20120148: American Securities Partners VI, L.P.; GTEL Holding LLC
Letter from James A. Kohm, Associate Director, Division of Enforcement, Bureau of Consumer Protection
Merial LLC (Frontline Plus)
20120140: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America; ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios, S.A.
20120137: TPF II, L.P.; Batesville Generation Holdings, LLC
20120135: B&G Foods, Inc.; Unilever N.V.
20120122: Pershing Square International, Ltd.; Canadian Pacific Railway Limited
20120121: Pershing Square, L.P.; Canadian Pacific Railway Limited
20120083: Apax Europe VII-B, L.P.; InsWeb Corporation
BASF SE, a corporation, in the Matter of
BASF has settled Commission charges that its proposed $5.1 billion acquisition of rival chemical manufacturer Ciba Holding Inc. would be anticompetitive and violate federal law by reducing competition in the worldwide markets for two high performance pigments. Under the terms of a consent order allowing the transaction to proceed, the FTC requires BASF to sell all assets, including the intellectual property related to the two pigments, bismuth vanadate and indanthrone blue, to a Commission-approved buyer within six months.
Phillips Petroleum Co. and Conoco Inc.
A final consent order allows the merger of Phillips Petroleum and Conoco Inc. but requires certain divestitures and other relief to maintain competition in the gasoline refining market in specific areas of the United States. Among the assets to be divested are refineries, propane terminals, and natural gas gathering facilities. The FTC approved an application to reopen and modify its final order to change the license agreement that ConocoPhillips has with Holly Corporation, an independent oil refining company. The changes approved by the Commission allow ConocoPhillips and Holly to make the licensing of the "Phillips" and "Phillips 66" brands non-exclusive in two states for the last two years of the FTC-required agreement between them.