If Cleveland-Cliffs is able to acquire US Steel, its CEO says the headquarters of the new entity would be in Pittsburgh, not Cleveland.

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves’ nearly two-hour news conference Monday afternoon was called to mark five years since he acquired Butler Works and the rest of AK Steel, taking what was a sprawling steelmaking plant on the brink of closure and giving it life well into the future.

There is only one Fortune 500 Company with "Cleveland" in its name. Why it matters: Maybe not for long. Driving the news: Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves announced Monday in a rambling two-hour press conference that if a proposed acquisition of U.

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves said Monday his company is ready to make another offer for U.S. Steel if its attempted merger with Japan’s Nippon Steel fails for good. “We have an all-American solution,

The CEO of American-owned and operated Cleveland Cliffs says he’s putting in a bid to buy U.S. Steel. He says it’s not a matter of if, but rather when.

The move by Cleveland-Cliffs comes after the Biden administration blocked the U.S. Steel-Nippon tie-up on national security grounds.

After a takeover by Japan’s Nippon Steel was blocked, a new deal may be gaining traction. The politics of Joe Biden and Donald Trump are center stage.

CEO Lourenco Goncalves said he has the funding for a US Steel (NYSE:X) potential acquisition in the $8 billion range. Goncalves declined to say which banks had committed to financing an offer, the Cliffs CEO told Semafor  in an interview published on Tuesday.