Resale website StubHub’s international arm will be sold to US firm Digital Fuel Capital to meet the CMA’s conditions
The $4bn (£2.9bn) merger of controversial ticket resale websites Viagogo and StubHub can go ahead, after the UK competition regulator approved a plan that will see StubHub’s international operations sold to a new entrant to the market, US investment group Digital Fuel Capital.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had ordered Viagogo to sell StubHub’s operations outside North America, after concluding that the combined entity would have handled about 90% of resold tickets for gigs, sports events and theatre in the UK.
