Can someone explains me why a UK court is able to block a deal between 2 US corps ?
How can they overreach ?
How can they overreach ?
But in this case, you have two US businesses, that own local UK business and do business on UK soil with UK customers. That is why they fall also under jurisdiction of UK.
MS and Activison could close their business in UK, and stop serving their customers and then they would not be affected by UK courts.
Bottom line is, if you do business in multiple places, you need to play by the rules of all that places.
It's similar how the legislation in lets say California can affect products in all the USA.
But unless they do, the UK has the right to regulate its own market in the way that they see fit, irrespective of whether that impacts on other markets (modulo international trade agreements).