ATVI/MSFT: Victoria Yuan quoted in CTFN
The comments follow the Competition and Markets Authority’s decision to issue a Final Order to block Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision and Microsoft’s submissions of a new, restructured deal for Phase 1 review.
24.08.2023
EU and UK competition law expert, Victoria Yuan, has been quoted in CTFN’s article on 23 August 2023, ‘ATVI/MSFT: Ubisoft backed as logical choice for streaming sale’.
CTFN is a specialist news and data resource service covering merger-related developments, including changes in regulatory enforcement across North America, Europe, and the UK. The piece analyses Microsoft’s proposed divestment of Activision Blizzard’s cloud-streaming rights to Ubisoft Entertainment in another attempt to close the deal.
Victoria commented on the nature of the restructured new deal and the merger review process.
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