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Andrew Walker - Yet Another Value Discussion!

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Microsoft Activision Merger - The End of Regulatory Risk

On Tuesday, July 18th, I thought there was one day where we'd never seen anything like this before. Last week, the FTC sued to block the Microsoft Activision merger. And on Monday, we had a court hearing in the UK. That was unlike anything I personally have ever heard before because the UK system is different than ours. We didn't know if they were going to approve it that day or night and might close. It might not. The merger agreement might get extended,. So they would have to extend the agreement if they wanted to deal with one. They came out, they extended the agreement in return for an increase in break fee. In the extremely unlikely case that this deal

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