https://phys.org/news/2018-06-mexico-conditions-bayer-monsanto-merger.html > Bayer's $63-billion (54-billion-euro) buyout of Monsanto—one of the largest in German corporate history—is set to close Thursday, birthing a global giant with 115,000 employees and revenues of some 45 billion euros. > Bayer has proposed selling off the listed businesses to its rival BASF, which the Mexican regulator said "has the capacity and incentive to vigorously compete in the markets involved."