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Adobe scores court win against German approach to killer acquisitions

By Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts ( February 26, 2025, 15:04 GMT | Insight) -- Adobe has seen German judges back its criticism of national merger rules designed to capture large companies’ acquisitions of small competitors at a high deal value, ruling that the country’s watchdog shouldn’t have reviewed the purchase of two software companies. It is the latest legal ruling on Germany’s 2017 merger reform that gave the Bundeskartellamt the power to review certain deals worth more than 400 million euros.Adobe has seen German judges back its criticism of national merger rules designed to capture large companies’ acquisitions of small competitors at a high deal value, ruling that the country’s watchdog shouldn’t have reviewed the purchase of two software companies....

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