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What happens now? The acquisition was banned in the UK
by nerdypirate 3y ago
What happens now? The acquisition was banned in the UK
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- PretzelPirate 3y agoMicrosoft is fighting the CMA and hired a big-name lawyer who is supposedly good at it.
- blibble 3y agothe only way you can fight a CMA ruling is to show a procedural error and given they knew who they'd be going up against, I suspect they were fastidious
- Hamuko 3y agoAnd as far as I've understood it, winning an appeal against the CMA just means that the CMA has to process the merger again. CMA ruled that Facebook had to divest Giphy, it was appealed, sent back to CMA and CMA still ruled that Facebook had to divest.
- reaperman 3y agoI suppose they could just not operate in the UK, but that seems unlikely.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoI guess we will see what Global Britain actually means.