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<text id=90TT2836>
<title>
Oct. 29, 1990: Business Notes:Deals
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 29, 1990 Can America Still Compete?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 85
Business Notes
DEALS
Take My Bank, Please
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<p> The man with the golden touch has struck it rich again--or has he? Former Treasury Secretary William Simon reaped a $66
million profit when he and fellow investors acquired Gibson
Greetings in 1982 and sold the card company back to public
stockholders 16 months later. That windfall helped create the
1980s boom in leveraged buyouts and established Simon's
reputation as a master of mouth-watering financial deals.
</p>
<p> Simon now stands to pocket an estimated $20 million by
selling First Interstate of Hawaii, which owns the state's
fourth largest bank, to First Hawaiian, the second largest
banking firm, for about $140 million. Simon's investment group
paid $31 million for First Interstate when it acquired the
holding company last year.
</p>
<p> But the Justice Department has urged the Federal Reserve
Board to reject Simon's latest deal on the ground that it would
substantially lessen competition among Hawaii's banks. In its
application, First Hawaiian, which has 58 branches, said it
would sell three offices outside Honolulu once the merger was
approved. Bank officials had hoped the step would help
eliminate antitrust objections to the purchase of First
Interstate. Even if the Federal Reserve ultimately approves the
merger, Justice could go to court to block the deal.
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