Lawyers for the private equity industry are watching a consolidated antitrust class action alleging that 17 private equity companies and investment banks conspired to keep the price of target companies artificially low during a five-year period.

The case, which consolidates two separate lawsuits, recently survived a motion to dismiss in the District of Massachusetts, exposing to trial companies such as investment banks JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and bank holding company Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and their subsidiaries. Dahl v. Bain Capital Partners, Nos. 1:07-cv-12388, 1:08-cv-10254 D. Mass..

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