Bet: Will the Activision Deal close? - It has closed

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Started by the-pi-guy, Feb 01, 2023, 05:14 PM

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I was thinking they'd just be forced to have a few formal contracts restricting what they can do with COD and other games in the future.
Apparently the CMA rarely does behavioral remedies like that.

These are likely remedies that would happen, assuming that remedies are required:

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- Divesting all or part of the business acquired to a suitable purchaser (for example, MS sells Activision Publishing to Take2 and keeps King and Blizzard).

- Carving a divestiture package out of the two merging businesses, with the purchaser keeping some of both businesses and selling some of them too (for example, Take2 buys Activision Publishing and some studios from MS, keeps COD and all the studios working on it but sells everything else to EA and Ubisoft).

- Keeping the acquired business and divesting the business already owned (for example, MS sells almost all the Xbox game studios but keeps ABK complete).

- The sale of key assets (for example, MS keeps ABK complete but sells all the studios working on COD excluding Treyarch, Infinity Ward and Raven).

On the other hand, as far as I know every video game acquisition so far has been approved without remedies.

Era lawyer