Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. v. Federal Trade Commission

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, a Dutch corporation, and its United States subsidiary, Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, (collectively, “petitioner” or “CB&I”), petition for review of an order of the Federal Trade Commission (“Commis sion”) 1 to divest assets acquired from Pith-Des Moines, Inc. (“PDM”), a Pennsylvania corporation, used in the business of designing, engineering and building field-erected cryogenic storage tanks. The Commission ruled that CB&I’s acquisition of these assets on February 7, 2001 would likely result in a substantial lessening of competition or…