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After a long and twisty M&A road, including a duel with a mouse, US cable company Comcast took control of British pay-TV company Sky in October, and the £30.6bn cross-border deal was backed by one of the largest and most intricate investment-grade loan packages of the year. Comcast won Sky after a heated competition with Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox, shifting full attention to its quest for the company after dropping another high-profile battle, with Walt Disney, to buy most of Fox's media assets.