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Tax inversions not a simple story: Scott Sperling

7:41 AM ET Thu, 10 Dec 2015

Scott Sperling, THL Partners co-president, weighs in on American companies that relocate their corporate headquarters to another country to escape paying higher taxes in the U.S.

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