Wasserstein, also trained as a lawyer, paraphrased former Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis. “Sunlight is the best of all disinfectants,” he told Kravis. If Kravis was worried about Johnson stealing this deal in some darkened back room, Wasserstein argued, he should shed some sunlight on the process. And the best of all illuminations, he continued, was an immediate tender offer. A meeting of the entire Kravis team was set for the next day.
