Look at Kenya airways, where Union staff had even a stronger case coz KQ has said it's doubling its fleet and will need staff obviously but still the honorable judge allowed KQ to fire them and you can bet by January KQ will be hiring more staff and the employees will only watch.
The only party than can scuttle the deal is CMA but they already okayed it. Secondly let's hypothetically say the deal is scuttled, you can Nick B will still fire these employees probably with less pay. They should look at KQ and learn to engage the employer constructively by showing they can add value. The court can not guarantee the jobs and I doubt the honorable judge knows how capital markets work. Otherwise she has no locus standi to stop Nick B and Puma for trading on the NSE or enforcing it. Nick B could become frivolous and file an injuction against CMA and possibly NSE for being discriminated from trading on NSE? Infact he could also sell Wells Petrolium Holdings, Petroholdings, Highfield and Cherry holdings to Puma privately aware from the glare of employees and CMA and still come and fire the same employees.
If you recall how Matiba and Centum pulled a fast one on CMA when Carbacid and BOC deal fell through. Were it not for carelessness of BOC and mostly it transaction advisor, BOC should have lowered the threshold for success to 50% bought carbacid. Latter on when Centum bought Matiba's stake under Rasimu, there was nothing stopping Centum from selling Rasimu to BOC directly aware from CMA's glare. There are many ways of skinning the cat and staff should remember the business of a business is to grow the business and they need to align themselves with this. So on KQ where is atwoli to come and rescue them like last time.....