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Lol. I was part of the core deal team. We did NOT know this would be the day for months and months.

But of course, that does not detract from your sentiment being 100% accurate. No one planned the timing of the consummation of the deal around random contemporaneous news events.



Well it was at least 'weeks and weeks' because I heard about this a few weeks ago and I'm a nobody :)


Did you hear a few weeks ago that this would be announced on exactly Tuesday June 13th? Or just "soon"?


Shareholder vote + 2-3 working days has been the internal messaging for a while. The shareholder vote was scheduled months ago


Here's a news article reporting on the date back in April: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/marissa-mayer-yahoo-ver...

This was certainly not news on the aol side internally at least... Yahoo publicly disclosed in their SEC filings, so it wasn't even a leak or the rumour mill




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