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Nicholas Hirst
Chief Correspondent
Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.
Selected Insights by Nicholas
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Korean Air Lines’ bid to take over its closest rival Asiana is the airline merger to test the European Commission
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Illumina will likely eventually have to unwind its acquisition of Grail as a result of the EU merger regulator’s block on it
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EU’s Illumina-Grail merger review has been a procedural rollercoaster
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The European Commission is marshaling the troops to ensure enforcement of the Digital Markets Act
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The future of European sport will be invoked at back-to-back EU court hearings on skating and football.