Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger

Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by airstrike on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:02AM (#38682618)

But anti-trust isn't being invented now. It's always existed. Companies already factor in anti-trust risk when doing M&A—it's just hard to quantify the expected value of that risk

If anything, IMHO, we've been too lenient with anti-trust in Tech in particular over the past 5-10 years. This just dials things back a little, and makes it so that "hard to quantify" risk is a little more likely than it was before, and certainly a little more likely than zero

I don't think Adobe / Figma specifically is an "otherwise obvious deal" precisely because it has such obvious anti-trust risk. The fact that this merger was even announced is all the proof I need that we were being too lenient. Figma can still sell to any number of huge Tech companies

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by peyton on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:48AM (#38684048)

Published guidance is the correct tool. Blocking acquisitions doesn’t really decrease uncertainty.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by airstrike on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:49AM (#38684079)

The guidance already exists. Don't buy your biggest competitor, unless you're but one player in a diversified sector.

Blocking acquisitions creates precedents.

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Re:Figma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed merger by robertlagrant on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @04:23AM (#38706796)

Adobe will be fine; this might wreck its biggest competitor.

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