Amazon.com Inc. closed its $6.5 billion acquisition of the MGM film and tv studio on Thursday, even because the Federal Commerce Fee continues to look at the deal.
The transfer comes after Amazon licensed to the FTC that it had supplied all the data requested by antitrust investigators reviewing the transaction. That step put the deal on a regulatory clock with the company that has now expired, leaving the corporate free to maneuver ahead, an individual acquainted with the matter mentioned.