Can Viagogo’s CEO Still Pull Off a StubHub Deal? ‘He’s Going to Take a Massive Hit’

LONDON — When Viagogo CEO Eric Baker announced in the fall of 2019 that his company planned to buy StubHub, the ticket exchange and resale company he co-founded in 2000, it played like a $4 billion tale of acrimony and redemption. Now the deal is at risk of unraveling, and Baker’s former business partner, Jeff Fluhr — who in 2004 urged the StubHub board to force Baker out — is ready to pounce should U.K. regulators rule the merger cannot proceed. He says he would buy the