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1 week ago | 
mlex.com | Andrew Boyce
By Andrew Boyce ( April 16, 2025, 09:46 GMT | Insight) -- It is too early to consider creating “European champions” when Europe currently lacks even “options” in many markets, the head of the Dutch competition authority has said.
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1 week ago | 
mlex.com | Nicholas Hirst |Lewis Crofts |Andrew Boyce
By Nicholas Hirst, Lewis Crofts and Andrew Boyce ( April 14, 2025, 15:14 GMT | Comment) -- The European M&A landscape for companies backed by foreign states looks more complicated, in light of newly published documents that show the dealmaking of UAE telecom operator Etisalat — known as e& — will face a unique level of scrutiny following commitments made to the European Commission.
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1 week ago | 
mlex.com | Andrew Boyce
By Andrew Boyce ( April 14, 2025, 09:46 GMT | Insight) -- US private-equity firm TPG has offered to amend its plan to buy German metering specialist Techem, in a bid to address EU competition concerns over the deal. The European Commission has extended its review deadline to May 8.US private-equity firm TPG has offered to amend its plan to buy German metering specialist Techem, in a bid to address EU competition concerns over the deal....
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2 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Andrew Boyce |Nicholas Hirst
By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst ( April 9, 2025, 13:17 GMT | Insight) -- An EU subsidy probe into Chinese wind-turbine maker Goldwind Science & Technology is untransparent and lacks a time-limit, according to the company. It aired the concerns in comments on future guidelines setting out how the EU will apply the Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
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2 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Jean Comte |Andrew Boyce
By Jean Comte and Andrew Boyce ( April 7, 2025, 13:45 GMT | Comment) -- The Italian lender, Mediobanca, has labeled the takeover attempt by its rival, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, as hostile and hopes to have it rejected. However, the deal is unlikely to raise competition concerns due to the fragmented nature of the national banking market, nor draw opposition by the Italian government, which actively supports consolidation.
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3 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Andrew Boyce
By Andrew Boyce ( March 31, 2025, 10:41 GMT | Comment) -- Liberty Media’s proposed takeover of motorcycling championship MotoGP is just days from the pivotal point where the European Commission will have to either escalate its probe with formal objections, or drop its concerns. If it hands Liberty Media a charge sheet, the US entertainment company might struggle, given the lack of an obvious structural remedy.
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4 weeks ago | 
mondaq.com | Annette Alexander |Christopher Anderson |Andrew Boyce |Matthew Brehaut
This chapter provides the latest information on alternativeinvestment funds and retail funds in Guernsey; including fundformation, restrictions on investors, the regulatory environment,operational requirements, the fund finance market, and theapplicable tax regime. Guernsey is frequently used by advisers and managers globallyfor the formation/domiciling of investment funds. Guernsey is oneof the world's largest offshore finance centres, with athriving funds industry.
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4 weeks ago | 
mlex.com | Andrew Boyce
By Andrew Boyce ( March 28, 2025, 09:26 GMT | Insight) -- French aircraft-parts maker Safran’s plan to buy part of Collins Aerospace’s actuation business raises concerns for “trimmable horizontal stabilizer actuation systems,” the UK’s antitrust watchdog said today. The Competition and Markets Authority said Safran had conceded those concerns, and informed the regulator of its intention to offer remedies.
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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Andrew Boyce
By Andrew Boyce ( March 24, 2025, 14:47 GMT | Insight) -- Universal Music Group's takeover of independent music-services company Downtown Music is facing a potential review by the European Commission, after the Netherlands* asked EU officials to investigate the deal.
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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Andrew Boyce
By Andrew Boyce ( March 20, 2025, 16:21 GMT | Insight) -- Novak Djokovic’s tennis players association has accused the sport’s governing bodies of “severe infringements” of EU and UK competition rules, likening their practices to ones that were punished by the EU bloc’s top court in football and skating.
