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Comment by JumpCrisscross

> Broadcom & VMware merger took similarly long and was approved. The duration is completely unacceptable and poison to business

The number of such mergers, globally every year, is countable on two hands. They involve the wealth of nations (this one’s similar to Malta’s GDP [1][2]).

It would be unreasonable to permanently staff the regulatory force that would be required to quickly review such deals in any industry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[2] https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2022/Adobe-to-Acqui...

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