In a proposed $5 billion merger between the world's largest mattress supplier and the US's largest retail mattress chain, a Brattle team led by Principal Dr. Jeremy Verlinda provided economic analyses and supported expert testimony on behalf of Mattress Firm regarding the competitive effects and procompetitive efficiencies that could arise from the planned merger.

Mattress Firm will operate under the Somnigroup International umbrella, the new name for the combined Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm group.

A federal court in January denied antitrust regulators’ latest move against the deal, which creates a conglomerate of three decentralized business units and the largest bedding company in the world.

The company said the move follows a federal court ruling which denied the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt the closing

A deal between the world’s largest mattress supplier and the US’s biggest mattress specialty retailer doesn’t raise antitrust concerns considering the market realities of the industry, a Texas federal judge said in an unsealed opinion.

Mattress maker Tempur Sealy International (TPX) has finally put its almost two-year-long $5 billion acquisition of retailer Mattress Firm Group

A federal judge on Friday cleared Tempur Sealy International’s (NYSE:TPX) $4B takeover of Mattress Firm, rejecting the Federal Trade Commission’s claim that the combination would harm consumers. U.S.

At the time of the May 2023 announcement, Tempur Sealy said it had already received a so-called "second request" from the Federal Trade Commission, indicating the deal had the pot