At a price of $24.9 billion, it is the largest leveraged buyout ever.
The transaction is one of the largest leveraged buyouts ever.
Mr. Wright said, referring to the effect on the tax base that a large buyout would have.
Seven of the 10 largest buyouts on record were announced this year.
The implications of the report go beyond the Revco case to other large buyouts.
No matter who wins, the buyer will be the largest buyout in history.
Financial analysts said it would be by far the largest leveraged buyout ever attempted in Europe.
It was one of the last large European buyouts completed before the financial crisis.
Nobody had ever seen such a large buyout of a public company.
At the time of its closing in 1985, Beatrice was the largest buyout completed.
