date:Feb 01, 2013
try. We will provide further comment when appropriate. Given todays development, we no longer expect the deal to close during the first calendar quarter of 2013, but we ultimately look forward to an expeditious resolution.
The departments lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks to prevent the companies from merging and to preserve the existing head-to-head competition between the firms that the transaction would eliminate, it states.