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Michael Acton
Senior Correspondent
Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.
Selected Insights by Michael
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The noisy resignation of the FTC’s sole remaining Republican commissioner, Christine Wilson
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Meta and Within won their federal court case against the US Federal Trade Commission.
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Google, beset with antitrust lawsuits, stands alone among the biggest tech companies in its adversarial relationship with California’s attorney general.
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Google battle in two different courts against two different coalitions of enforcers.
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The US Department of Justice’s antitrust division is shaking up the world of corporate governance.