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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

UK watchdog warns Adobe's $20 bn takeover of Figma could harm competition

The competition watch-dog stepped into another major global tech takeover today when it ruled that Photoshop owner Adobe’s proposed $20 billion (£15.8 billion) acquisition of fellow digital design firm Figma could harm the UK sector has said.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the provisional findings of a investigation into the planned takeover deal found that it would wipe-out competition between two major players.

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