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Comment: Microsoft's bid to reverse UK's Activision deal block will be a tall order — and a time suck

By Flavia Fortes and Nicholas Hirst
  • 26 Apr 2023 18:59
  • 26 Apr 2023 20:11
Microsoft lost no time today in vowing to appeal the UK merger regulator's block on its proposed acquisition of game developer Activision Blizzard. But reversing a Competition and Markets Authority decision is a tall order:  It hasn't happened in a merger case in recent memory.
While a handful of merging

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Flavia Fortes

Global Head of Mergers


Flavia writes about merger control, antitrust enforcement and litigation in the U.S. and Brazil. Before joining MLex, Flavia worked as an Antitrust Consultant in the Federal Trade Commission's Office of International Affairs and as a Research Fellow for the American Antitrust Institute. She has written on the intersection of antitrust law and intellectual property law in technology-driven and innovative markets.

Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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