Bayer Hires Lawyers as Monsanto Spying Probe Widens
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Bayer AG hired law firm Sidley Austin LLP to investigate a Monsanto surveillance project that first came to light in France and has now spread to encompass a half-dozen other European countries.
With the help of media company Fleishman-Hillard Group, Monsanto tracked journalists, politicians and others in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the U.K. as well as stakeholders connected to European Union institutions, Bayer said on Tuesday. The German company said it decided at the end of last week to stop working with Fleishman-Hillard in the areas of communications and public affairs.