Nö, nur weil CMA aktuell blockt, ist der Deal nicht geplatzt.
btw aus dem Era von Idas:
How long is the appeal process?
www.resetera.com
THE LAST 15 DAYS
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April 27th: Ukraine approves the acquisition.
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April 27th: MS is not very happy with the decision from the CMA.
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April 28th: MS signed a 10-year deal cloud with Nware.
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May 6th: MS has hired an 'EU-beating' lawyer (Daniel Beard KC) to help overturn the decision from the CMA.
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May 9th: ABK has hired "a legal heavyweight" (David Pannick KC) to fight the decision from the CMA.
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May 10th: According to Reuters, the EC will approve the deal as soon as May 15th.
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May 11th: The CMA is restricting MS/ABK to buy interest in each other.
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May 11th: ABK has also hired the law firm Slaughter and May as a co-counsel in its upcoming appeal against the CMA.
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May 11th: Microsoft and Activision will act as independent parties in their appeals to the CAT.
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May 12th: MS urged US District judge Jacqueline Scott Corley not to issue a temporary block on the deal.
NEXT KEY DATES:
- May 22nd 2023: provisional deadline for a decision from the EC (it could happen as soon as May 15th according to Reuters)
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May 24th 2023: deadline for an appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in UK.
- May 2023: decision from the SAMR in China.
- May 2023: decision from the Korea Fair Trade Commission.
- May 2023: final decision from the Competition Tribunal in South Africa.
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May/June 2023: decisions from Turkey and Canada.
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June 9th 2023: decision from New Zealand.
- July 18th 2023: The end of the second extension and final outside date in the merger agreement. If MS quits by that date they have to pay a termination fee of $3,000,000,000; if they don't, they'll have to renegotiate the outside date with ABK.
- August 2nd 2023: beginning of the FTC in-house trial.
- Early 2024: decision from the FTC administrative law judge.
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Early 2024: decision from CAT (if there was an appeal)