This is 100% identical to the illegal stuff robber barons used to do
when two railroads were in competition and it was killing profits, they would sign a silent partnership and one would take upstate NY and the other would take NYC to other parts of NY
when two railroads were in competition and it was killing profits, they would sign a silent partnership and one would take upstate NY and the other would take NYC to other parts of NY
both made profits
Read the biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt
he did a lot of this