Dollar Tree $9.1 billion acquisition of Family Dollar

Overview:

• Dollar Tree has completed its $9.1 billion acquisition of fellow discount retailer Family Dollar. 
• The deal took an entire year to close amid intense antitrust scrutiny.
• The combined company will operate over 13,000 stores in the US.
• Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz (Daniel Neff, Trevor Norwitz, Brandon Price, Eric Rosof) advised Dollar Tree.
• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Ethan Klingsberg, Paul Tiger, Nicolas Grabar, Amy Shapiro) advised Family Dollar.

Kurt Stumpo - Journalist - North America and the Caribbean