Steps toward a Natural Convergence

With the continuing restructuring of the chemicals industry, the deal flow will continue to create opportunities for those with distinctive insight and foresight. Players with superior execution skills will continue to be handsomely rewarded. As discussed above, given the historic outperformance of the LBO players in 

Chemical corporations and LBO firms may move toward a best of breed model in which the complementary skills and resources of these two types of players are effectively leveraged to benefit both. In this natural, not necessarily inevitable, convergence, those who move first to reach across their respective cognitive barriers for creative collaboration stand to gain the most 

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