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US: Delrahim notes precision of Disney/Fox deal structure

By  |  June 10, 2018

Walt Disney’s US$52.4 billion deal to acquire most of Twenty-First Century Fox’s assets was “surgically” structured on good advice to be submitted to regulators, Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general for the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, said on Friday, June 8.

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    “We will see what the investigation shows. (Disney) didn’t propose to acquire Fox Sports 1 and 2. They didn’t acquire Fox Broadcasting and say, you know what, we will combine this with ABC and don’t worry about it we’ll have an arbitrator decide if prices for advertisers go up or competition for content creators goes down,” Delrahim told The Deal’s annual corporate governance conference in New York.

    “They had good advice and carved out surgically … a transaction that might be doable. But again, who knows where that transaction leads,” Delrahim added.

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