Pursuits
Dow's Survivor CEO Liveris Closes on Most Elusive Deal of All
- A 39-year Dow veteran, he led company through financial crisis
- Deal with DuPont comes 9 years after earlier merger proposal
Dow CEO Liveris, DuPont CEO Breen on Merger
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There was the ill-timed merger that nearly sank Dow Chemical Co. with too much debt. Before that, there was the time two trusted lieutenants plotted in secret to sell the company. And more recently, there was unwanted attention from a notorious Wall Street activist.
Yet despite the tribulations faced by Dow over the past decade, its Chief Executive Officer Andrew Liveris has survived to finalize a deal that had eluded him for almost a decade.