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Ryuu96 said:

Angelus said:

I mean, couldn't MS still just close over them in the US within the next month or so and force the FTC's hand?

Based on what I've gathered from conversations with those who know more, they can't close the deal without CMA's approval, it's a written requirement in the contract, they can't close the deal on certain countries and not on others, it's all or nothing. They can remove CMA's approval requirement but would face massive fines from the UK. They can't spinoff Activision-Blizzard as an independent entity without CMA's say so and they can't get CMA's say so until it goes through CAT and back to CMA again where they once again negotiate concessions (behavioural or structural).

They can't force FTC's hand without first getting through CMA basically.

Question is: would that fine be higher than what MS already has to pay to Activision when the deal doesn't succeed?

Wasn't that already a couple of billions?