EUR-Lex: Zenimax pathway to acquisition made clear. (Relevant documentation available)

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Could be tomorrow. It’s not like there are many days left either way lol.

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Ms/Time Warner merger Wut?

Edit, it seems it was a DRM tool from xerox that Ms and TW tried to buy together but the deal was aborted.

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So when this clears tomorrow-ish what is left for the deal to be considered official?

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Nothing. All their deals closed 2-7 days after EU made their decision.

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So could be tomorrow, but more likely is sometime next week.

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Except for Nokia which was 2 weeks later (and publicly listed) and Yahoo Search license which was day of. Github, the closest comparitor as a private firm that sold for 7.5 billion closed 2 days after, so my guess (knock on wood) is if not Friday then Monday.

Edit: Sorry messed up. Github week after. I’m still hoping for a close of the deal ASAP.

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My first call

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That would be a nice way to kickoff the weekend :grin:

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Jeff Grubb seemed to hint at mid March which would be like March 15

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It is 11:14 PM in the EU.

EU is 6 hours ahead of us.

We could know by early morning Friday or Noon EST Friday.

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That’s kinda late though, compared to other examples mentioned. But we’ll see, the waiting game continues.

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Wasn’t Nokia several months later ? (compared to the EU clearance, otherwise the timeline with Bethesda doesn’t seem very different)

If I’m correct:

Linkedin ($26.2B) in 2016:

  • Announcement: June 13
  • EU deadline (has been extended following concessions): December 6
  • Cleared by EU: December 6
  • Completion: December 8

GitHub ($7.5B) in 2018:

  • Announcement: June 4
  • EU deadline: October 19
  • Cleared by EU: October 19
  • Completion: October 26

Skype ($8.5B) in 2011:

  • Announcement: May 10
  • EU deadline: October 7
  • Cleared by EU: October 7
  • Completion: October 13

Nokia ($7.2B) in 2013:

  • Announcement: September 2
  • EU deadline: December 4
  • Cleared by EU: December 4
  • Completion: April 25
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It is now 12:38 AM, Friday March 5th, in the EU.

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Any moment now

Meme Reaction GIF by Silicon Valley

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You are correct. They needed approval from China which took longer. Sorry. I screwed up the date format. Here it’s mm dd yy, there it’s dd mm yy so I erroneously saw it as April 12th and not December 4th and forgot it was 2014 not 2013.

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Is it really just the E.U and the U.S that have to approve this? So no Japan approval needed?

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I’m going to play Fallout 4 to will the deal into completion

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ring around the rosie circle GIF by A24

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Tik Tok GIF by Kesha

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F5’s spam

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