Michael Iuul, Carlsberg's chief of international operations, argues that Interbrew overpaid for Whitbread and Bass.
Those buys moved Interbrew from fifth place among global brewers to second, behind Anheuser-Busch.
Changes at the Belgium beer maker Interbrew raised the ire of locals, who protested.
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So far the only foreign purchase (by Belgium's Interbrew) is a brewery at Niksic.
Meanwhile, Heineken, Interbrew and Anheuser have been pushing up their market shares, to 5.5%, 7.4% and 12%, respectively.
Ambev partnered with a Belgium company Interbrew to form the international arm of the Brazilian powerhouse - Inbev.
Interbrew, the world's second biggest brewer by volume, includes Stella Artois, Beck's, and Bass among its best-known brands.
Interbrew, Belgium's largest beer maker, admitted that it had done so in the past but said it was blameless now.
Interbrew is widely expected to close three of the 10 Bass and Whitbread breweries, potentially resulting in thousands of job losses.
InBev, itself formed by a giant merger of Brazil's AmBev and Belgium's Interbrew several years ago, described the deal as "historic".
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said in a statement that he was "disappointed and surprised" by Interbrew's threat to freeze its assets.
Interbrew and South African Breweries wanted a 51% stake in the Indian company - a holding Mr Mallya was reluctant to allow.
The Danish firm's distributor, Interbrew, distributes its own competing Stella Artois brand.
First among those competitors is InBev, the world's biggest brewer by volume since it was formed last year when Belgium's Interbrew bought Brazil's AmBev.
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Interbrew said it would drop action against a fifth UK newspaper, the Independent, because it did not possess original copies of the merger papers.
According to a report in The Observer newspaper Carlsberg-Tetley, which was beaten to the Bass deal by Interbrew, has already made an approach for Carling.
They claim that potential corporate whistleblowers will be deterred from talking to the media in future if they are forced to hand over the Interbrew documents.
United Breweries wants a partner that will not threaten Kingfisher in its domestic market and some say Interbrew, which is reported to be in talks with the Indian brewery at present, is the prime candidate.
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