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Reuters quotes Gareth Mills on the CMA’s deadline extension of the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal

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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.

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