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Microsoft hires lobbyists to help with Yahoo acquisition

By Laurie Bennett

April 21, 2008 at 10:13am

Microsoft has brought in a Washington lobbying firm, Bryan Cave Strategies, to assist its drive to buy Yahoo.

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In its registration with the Senate Office of Public Records last week, Bryan Cave Strategies said its president, Broderick Johnson, and VP Waldo McMillan would represent Microsoft. Johnson was President Bill Clinton’s deputy assistant & House liaison.

Microsoft offered $31 per share for Yahoo in February, but Yahoo execs have opposed the bid.

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