Natalie McNelis

Senior Correspondent

Natalie McNelis covers mergers for MLex in Brussels. Before joining MLex, she spent 20 years as an international trade and competition lawyer in law firms including Stibbe and WilmerHale. Natalie has a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College, a JD from Harvard Law School and an LLM in EU law from KU Leuven. She is admitted to the bar in New York.

Selected Insights by Natalie

Nvidia-Arm deal's EU notification likely to herald a clash of regulators

2021-09-03T08:30:00+01:00 Natalie McNelis

Nvidia's notification of its $40 billion Arm buyout to the EU merger authority is imminent
EU merger control won't get less burdensome in complex cases, Loriot says

2021-07-13T14:14:00+01:00 Natalie McNelis

EU merger control is unlikely to become less burdensome for companies in complex cases despite their complaints.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe
Illumina-Grail review sees EU regulator weighing matters of life and death

2021-07-06T11:52:00+01:00 Natalie McNelis

EU regulators grappling with the Illumina-Grail deal have to contend with two conflicting interests.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Europe
Planned French Netflix rival first faces a tough merger approval at home

2021-06-03T07:44:00+01:00 Natalie McNelis, Nicholas Hirst

A French bid to create a Netflix rival will face intense scrutiny from the country’s own competition authority.
Foreign subsidy rules would hand broad discretionary powers to EU Commission

2021-05-06T00:00:00+01:00 Natalie McNelis, Nicholas Hirst

The EU’s new plan to scrutinize foreign subsidies has higher review thresholds than initially planned.