But the economic outcomes weren't any, but they were fewer, as somebody pointed out, a lot more complex deals, a lot of more unworkable, undocumentable, unenforceable, and the interpersonal relationships were strained.
Last year, Denton's, a global law firm, unwound its tie-up with Dacheng, a Chinese one, in response to new cybersecurity and data protection rules that made the combination unworkable.
But it was an unworkable idea, despite Barnard's creation of the paddle-operated semi-automatic gearshift, which was a real innovation that subsequently became universal.