Katherine (Catherine) Blunt
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Excellent question, right?
The company says that it has commitments from several large funds, including VC funds, to back the entirety of the transaction.
We don't have any more detail than that at this point.
But yeah, it is significantly more than the current valuation of the company.
Yeah, it's not a coincidence at all.
The Justice Department filed a suit against Google in 2020, and it's taken quite a while to get to this remedies phase.
of the trial.
But the judge is considering a number of different options, considering limiting the company's ability to pay to be the default browser on phones and other devices, requiring it to share data with rivals, and as we're talking about now, potentially forcing a divestiture of Chrome.
The company doesn't want to do any of the proposed remedies, at least not with the sweep that's been proposed by the Justice Department.
And in particular, said that like,
selling Chrome or having to share data with rivals would be really harmful to the overall business.
Analysts have generally considered a forced sale of Chrome to be unlikely relative to the other potential remedies on the table.
The judge did remark earlier this year during closing arguments at the trial that maybe this is a cleaner solution than some of the more complicated proposals on the table.
But
That doesn't really give us a great indication one way or the other how he's thinking about it.
The ruling should come within the next few weeks.
He has said he expects to release a ruling in August.
Thanks for having me.
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