[Am-info] Microsoft to buy IBM ?

[Eric M. Bennett]

John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org> wrote:

>Honeywell was a EU company, but I can't see how the EU would have any
>jurisdiction over two US companies...

What do you mean by saying they are an EU company?  Their 
headquarters is in the US, and as far as I can trace the corporate 
lineage both Honeywell and AlliedSignal (which bought Honeywell) are 
American companies:

http://www.honeywell.com/about/page1_1.html
http://money.cnn.com/2001/06/26/deals/ge_honeywell/

The second article notes that Canadian regulators had approved the 
deal, so it looks like there were at least three sets of regulators 
involved and only two companies (in which case countries where the 
company is not headquartered still appear to have some power).

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