9 percent $1.37 billion Source: Harry's The January FTC meeting, eight months after the deal was announced, kicked off a series of intense sessions with each of the FTC's five commissioners, plus countless prep sessions and debriefings. Harry's had three law firms working on the deal, each with half a dozen lawyers assigned to it; Edgewell had its own representation. ("Try doing the hourly math on that," Katz-Mayfield groans. "It's not pretty.") What had seemed like a charmed startup finding a charmed exit was turning into something more complicated--and set many to wondering if the Harry's experience spelled trouble for other challenger brands hoping to one day engineer similar exits.