In Flip Of Bausch Health’s Planned Order For IPOs, Bausch + Lomb Registration Comes Before Solta
Executive Summary
“We are positioned to move forward with either the Bausch + Lomb or Solta IPO quickly when market conditions are right for each of them,” CEO Joseph Papa says at J.P. Morgan conference, but the firm’s “next step” in the process of separating the two businesses was filing with the SEC an IPO registration for Bausch + Lomb.
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