Two big companies were allowed to merge with the stipulation that they sell off some of their assets to a third party to make a new competitor. What happened in that case? The new competitor failed spectacularly and most of those assets were slowly reacquired by the merged company who had been forced to sell them off.
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Two big companies were allowed to merge with the stipulation that they sell off some of their assets to a third party to make a new competitor. What happened in that case? The new competitor failed spectacularly and most of those assets were slowly reacquired by the merged company who had been forced to sell them off.