Matthew Newman | MLex market insight

Matthew Newman

Senior Correspondent, Antitrust and Merger Regulation

Matthew Newman is a senior correspondent for MLex and writes about mergers, antitrust and cartel investigations. Matthew began covering competition at the Luxembourg courts in 2004 and then moved to Brussels. After working as a spokesman for the European Commission until April 2012, he spent several months in Washington, DC writing about mergers for MLex. He spent a year studying French, history and communications in Grenoble, France and is a graduate of Boston University with degrees in history and journalism.

Selected insights by Matthew

Expedia deflects antitrust case at German court as hotels’ complaint rejected

20 February 2017

Facebook won’t face a fine in German antitrust probe of privacy terms

3 February 2017

Google’s Pichai to meet EU antitrust chief Vestager on Friday

16 November 2016

Intel’s victory in EU court opinion may prove short-lived

20 October 2016

Vestager, Gazprom to meet this month on antitrust charges

Big Ben with Plane

UK minister promises ‘clarity’ on farm support, policies post-Brexit

Google’s antitrust woes deepen as EU ramps up charges in search, advertising businesses

Starbucks’ ruling by EU raises questions about profit shifting

EU court defeat shows peril in applying ‘selectivity’ to tax regimes

18 December 2015

EU should be cautious about regulating Internet platforms, Vestager says

Antitrust agencies should be wary of ‘excessive pricing’ cases in patent disputes, Hesse says

‘Hold-up’ cases against patent holders lack ‘systematic’ economic evidence, Wright says