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Shares of Adobe bought off following final week’s information that the United States authorities is “getting ready to file suit to block the $20 billion Adobe-Figma deal announced last year on the grounds it is anti-competitive,” although not as sharply as when the corporate introduced the deal again in 2022.
Investors, it seems, are prepared to ding Adobe for each doing the deal and not doing the deal.
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That the Department of Justice may stick a fork within the transaction will not be a shock. Other authorities have additionally been taking a tough take a look at the deal. As TechCrunch reported earlier in February:
Adobe’s proposed plan to snap up digital design rival Figma for $20 billion has attracted the attentions of the European Commission (EC), which introduced right this moment that the proposed merger probably “threatens to significantly affect competition in the market for interactive product design and whiteboarding software.”