Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at the Georgia State Convocation Center on July 30, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Wall Street dealmakers said they believe Vice President Kamala Harris, if she were to win the November presidential election against Donald Trump, is a clean slate on antitrust regulation and a prime opportunity to loosen the Biden antitrust regime.
“This ‘big is bad’ hostility [from Biden] will fall by the wayside” in a potential Harris administration, according to White & Case partner George Paul, who advised an attempted merger between Kroger and Albertsons. “I don’t think Harris will go that far. I think she’s going to take a step back.”
Wall Street’s hope for more lax regulation under Harris, the de facto Democratic presidential nominee, might suggest a broader view that her stances on corporate regulation are still malleable.
Just over a week into her presidential campaign and …