Nippon Steel’s (NPSCY) top executives are meeting local officials and workers of U.S. Steel (X) in Pennsylvania as the company makes a post-election push to build support for a $15B takeover that faced bipartisan opposition in Washington, Amelia Pollard and Demetri Sevastopulo of The Financial Times reports. Nippon vice-chair Takahiro Mori flew to Pittsburgh and will make his case in person over the next few days that regulators should clear its bid, a person familiar with the trip told the Times.
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