Microsoft Flagship Store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. (Photo: The Art of Pics/Shutterstock.com) Deal Watch: Simpson, Skadden Usher in Microsoft's $68.7B Buy of Activision Blizzard
The deal is the largest takeover in Microsoft's history and signals a bet on the metaverse for Microsoft Gaming.
January 18, 2022 at 01:45 PM
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Deals and Transactions
The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett represented Microsoft Gaming and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom counseled Activision Blizzard on a $68.7 deal, the largest transaction of the year so far and the most expensive acquisition Microsoft has ever made.
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