The final offer from the prospective purchaser was unacceptable, ... Unfortunately, this also meant that a planned acquisition was aborted.

Let a purchaser beware

We're discouraged they didn't take the offer,

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

We do not know whether it was an opportunistic robbery, whether it was something that was planned or whether it was a follow-up, ... We just don't know right now.

We're now bumper-to-bumper in the final laps.