Reuters quotes Gareth Mills on the CMA’s deadline extension of the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA), Britain's competition regulator, has extended its final deadline on the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal to the end of August after it received a 'detailed and complex' new proposal from Microsoft that claimed material changes in circumstance.
Gareth Mills, Partner, says that the CMA is going to have to find a way through:
"They'll be trying to rush this through as expeditiously as possible.
"The matter of form is they can't reopen a decision they've already taken. But that is what they will be doing in all but name."
Read the full article in Reuters here.