A bizarre press conference held this Monday by Lourenco Goncalves, CEO of Ohio-based steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs, further underscored the imprudence of President Joe Biden’s move to nix Tokyo-based Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.
US Steel and Nippon, whose $14.3 billion merger was blocked by President Joe Biden last week, filed a lawsuit against the US government Monday, claiming Biden’s executive order to bar the companies from combining was signed for “purely political reasons.
In dual lawsuits filed Jan. 6, U.S. Steel Corp. and Nippon Steel Corp. blame the Biden administration's politicizing its national-security review as well as the behind-the-scenes actions by rival Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. and United Steelworkers International President David McCall for scuttling the $14.9 billion deal.
Blocking Nippon Steel from acquiring U.S. Steel lays the groundwork for a major consolidation of American steelmaking that will harm consumers and the economy.
He said he would relocate Cleveland-Cliffs’ headquarters to Pittsburgh ... to abandon plans to acquire U.S. Steel after President Joe Biden blocked the deal. The new deadline, now in mid ...
He said he would relocate Cleveland-Cliffs' headquarters to Pittsburgh ... to abandon plans to acquire U.S. Steel after President Joe Biden blocked the deal. The new deadline, now in mid-June ...
Nippon's offer to buy USS was $14 billion while, according to Cliff CEO Lourenco Goncalves, Cliffs' final bid was $13.8 billion. Before Biden killed the Nippon deal, a bipartisan group, including incoming President Donald Trump, also opposed the deal.
U.S. Steel shares jumped Monday on a report that Cleveland-Cliffs is teaming up with rival Nucor for a potential bid for the company, whose $14.1 billion buyout by Nippon Steel was recently blocked by President Joe Biden.
The move by Cleveland-Cliffs comes after the Biden administration blocked the U.S. Steel-Nippon tie-up on national security grounds.
Lawyers for U.S. Steel, Nippon and Cleveland-Cliffs sparred Friday morning in a Pittsburgh courtroom. Here's what went down.
Media reports have claimed that North American steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs is partnering with industry peer Nucor to prepare a potential all-cash bid