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Saturday (6/17) at 12 noon Eastern Time / 9 AM Pacific Time / 5 PM UK Time / 6 PM Central European Time: analysis of #Microsoft and #Activision's opposition to the @FTC's motion for preliminary injunction. Their filings are due today (Friday) by midnight. twitter.com/i/spaces/1YqKD…
I will write a blog post about the same subject prior to that Twitter Space, but my blog's audience overwhelmingly has a professional background in this field. The purpose of the Twitter Space is to explain it in basic terms and make the whole topic more accessible.
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Recording has been activated this time around.
I activated it last time, too, but then accidentally started a new Twitter Space instead of entering the one I had already created. Shouldn't happen tomorrow.
I activated it last time, too, but then accidentally started a new Twitter Space instead of entering the one I had already created. Shouldn't happen tomorrow.
Investment bank Macquarie says #Microsoft should close the #Activision deal:
“...would result in a legal battle with the @CMAgovUK but one we think worth fighting as it is precedent-setting for an acquisitive company to allow one country to block a $75 billion deal"
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“...would result in a legal battle with the @CMAgovUK but one we think worth fighting as it is precedent-setting for an acquisitive company to allow one country to block a $75 billion deal"
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So here you have one of the world's largest investment banks (among other things, the worlds largest infrastructure asset manager) saying that it would be a viable and commercially prudent strategy to just close the ABK deal over the CMA's objection and duke it out in court.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
In my opinion, anyone in favor of the ABK deal should unfollow and ignore Gazondaily now that @Perlrulez tweeted a segment of that laughable interview with the small-island (not talking about the big island that is Britain) M&A lawyer.
The @CMAgovUK's chairman and CEO have to testify tomorrow before the Business and Trade Committee of the UK Parliament on "the work of the Competition and Markets Authority".
UK lawmakers will ask questions, hopefully also related to #Microsoft-#ActivisionBlizzard!
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UK lawmakers will ask questions, hopefully also related to #Microsoft-#ActivisionBlizzard!
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I haven't talked to him in a while, but I actually know the Chief Whip of the Conservative Party in the UK Parliament personally. We worked together in 2007 on an EU competition policy issue related to soccer broadcasting rights, and won a parliamentary majority for an amendment.
Richard Corbett (Labour) accused Chris Heaton-Harris in an EP debate of having proposed the amendment at my "behest", which was wrong. We just had a meeting about an EU Parliament resolution on sports policy and realized we shared the same perspective on how to confront an issue.
