"If you look at the post-offer undertakings that SoftBank has made, they are extremely strong, they are virtually unprecedented," he said after the shareholder meeting.
Pfizer offered undertakings to protect AstraZeneca's research and development (R&D) work, including keeping 20% of the combined company's R&D workforce in the UK.
Tzipi Livni, at the head of The Movement, and Yair Lapid, who leads another centrist group called Yesh Atid, are under pressure to offer similar undertakings.Will they hold once the votes are counted and the bargaining begins?
We are confident we will be able to offer suitable undertakings, which will keep the number of pubs we need to sell to a minimum and allow the acquisition to complete before the end of June".
Without spelling out details, an executive at EMI said today that the companies "offered substantial undertakings that go far beyond" the limited proposals they made earlier this month and are both "structural and behavioral in nature".
It said the "phase two" investigation, which involves a 24-week examination of the industry to establish whether the newly merged company has too much of the market, would go ahead unless Pork Farms offered "acceptable undertakings" within the next five days.
Michel Sidibé, executive director of Unaids, the United Nations AIDS agency, said South Africa's undertakings offered hope to the continent.
The judge said: "I accept the undertakings offered by the defendant, which are clear and plainly given on advice.
But the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt (given the powers stripped from Cable) has delayed a decision on passing the deal on to the Competition Commission, so that he can scrutinise undertakings offered by News Corp that could meet Ofcom's concerns.
This is unusual because philanthropy in India has – much like the government – been slow to offer patronage to serious undertakings in culture.
Driver asked counsel for the immigration minister, Scott Morrison, whether it was possible to give the court an undertaking that no removals would take place while the processes were ongoing, but no undertakings were offered.
