The Justice Department lost its latest effort to pause Booz Allen Hamilton’s $440 million acquisition of competitor EverWatch while it considers appealing an order allowing the deal to proceed.
The government filed its request for a pause hours after the deal closed Oct. 14, so “that ship has sailed,” Judge Catherine C. Blake of the US District Court for the District of Maryland wrote Oct. 31 in denying the motion.
The Justice Department’s antitrust division had asked again to pause the merger pending appeal after losing its motion for a preliminary injunction earlier in the month. Blake also rejected the ...
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