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Welcome to the Views Room, a weekly podcast brought to you by Reuters Breaking Views.

I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, coming to you from my home in the wilds of Connecticut,

having flown back from Zurich a week ago. I am happily joined by Jen Saba and Anna Szymanski in New

Jersey and Brooklyn. We have the perfect tri-state Trinity here, don't we? New York, New Jersey,

and Connecticut. You're back? You're back in the Trice? I am, I am. Well, look, I thought we discussed a few stories that you guys worked on this week that I think kind of sum up the state of corporate deal making in the age of COVID-19. After that, we'll hand over the podcast to Jeff Goldfarb, our Asia editor to chew over the bail out of Hong Kong's de facto national carrier, Cathay Pacific.

But first, Jen, let's talk a bit of, let's talk takeout. You wrote a piece on Wednesday

about Grubhub, the U.S. takeout company or delivery, food delivery company, green to be acquired

by just eat takeaway.com. Kind of a mouthful, that name. Yeah. And it's a $7.3 billion deal,

which is interesting in lots of ways. I mean, it's sort of a perfect encapsulation of the,

of a COVID-19 type deal, but it's also, I mean, it's relatively large. You've got cross-border,

haven't seen a whole lot of it. It says something, I'm sure sure about antitrust and also tells us about their competitors. Why don't you unpack the big takeaway deal? What's our takeaway? Yeah, there's a lot going on. So just to kind of set the stage here, Grubhub, which is, you know, a huge food delivery service here in the United States,

they had been reportedly in talks to merge with Uber, and this was back in May. And the rationale

would be Uber eats needs some help. They need to boost their business. This would, this would be

a complementary fit with them.

And so they were kind of trying to hash you those terms.

However, there was a huge, huge regulatory overhang

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