We had about an hour long discussion with the analyst community that took place at 9:00 this morning. I
think one of the most important questions on the call was, wow, this has been an idea for a while and congratulations for making that happen. And that means that the analyst community and investors understand the strategic rationale behind a deal.
And thats really, really important. And I think if you connect some dots to other things weve said on previous calls with investors, this will all make a lot of sense. Look, everybody would have liked to see a stock reaction green on all
fronts. I wouldnt read too much into it. It is not, certainly not, uncommon on announcement day for the targets stock to go up and the purchase stock to go down. And the most important thing that we can continue to do is deliver on our
results. And Claudia touched on this earlier, that the number one framework that we have is for both companies to deliver on their operating plans, because independently, we are both generating a lot of value for shareholders.
And so I would add, I mean, it was not embedded in the question, but Houston, who leads our communications team, who is just off camera, but hes also
typing away. Hes over there somewhere. Weve also gotten a lot of media outreach, so theres a lot of media enthusiasm around this, especially just the timing around things coming out of Davos last week, the COP discussions,
infrastructure discussions. We got a lot of inquiries around that, both in media as well as on the investor side. So, look, you always have a lot of churn. Youre going to see a lot of churn, a lot of trading over the course of the of the
coming days here. And thats just the way these public company deals work.
So we have some questions about our colleagues who are customer facing
first, asking if there are materials that they can use to talk to customers, and then are they restricted to using that material. And I want to get excited and share your excitement with customers. What is the guidance?
Yeah, so were going to come out with a very explicit guidance on that. Dorothy, Im going to hand it over here in a moment. But yeah, I hate the
terminology. Its a US term that when youre trying to get regulatory approval from an antitrust, meaning like, can these two companies come together? Now, the bottom line is we are largely complementary, so we dont have a lot of
overlap. So thats why we think were going to get approval reasonably quickly. But there are certain rules that I wont even use the US nomenclature and what they are. But the idea is that you cant kind of get ahead of yourself
with customers and suppliers and creating competitive advantage. But Dorothy, you want to give us some headlines now and then well make sure we have that sent out to all of you.