Bausch + Lomb Patiently 'Semi-Private' While Bausch Health Plots Path To Spin-Out Completion

B+L using period of Bausch Health’s near-full ownership to plan for future. "When the spin comes, then we can spend a lot more time with our investors. But right now, I just have to take the elevator down two floors and I can see the 90% shareholder,” says CEO Brent Saunders.

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Bausch + Lomb, Corporation president and CEO Brent Saunders doesn’t need to go far from his office to meet with the owners of nearly 90% of the Canadian company. Where B+L goes under Saunders depends on how Bausch Health Companies Inc. completes the spin-out it started more than a year ago.

“It's like being a semi-private company,” said Saunders on 6 September at a Wells Fargo investor conference in Everett, MA.

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