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James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, is spearheading MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website... Read more

Laurel is a senior correspondent covering data privacy and security, antitrust and mergers and acquisitions across Australia and New Zealand. Prior to that, Laurel spent a year spearheading MLex’s activist investment coverage, looking at boardroom disputes and shareholder campaigns agitating for changes to company strategy. Laurel joined MLex in 2013 and reported for five years on European energy and climate policies from Brussels. In that time, Laurel covered the regulation of emissions and technological developments... Read more

Arezki reports on national competition cases, especially in France, Germany and Benelux. He joined us in 2019 from Acuris, where he spent four years covering mergers and antitrust in France and Benelux for the Mergermarket, Dealreporter and PaRR services. He started his career at French economic newspaper La Tribune and holds Masters degrees in international economics and journalism from Paris University Panthéon-Sorbonne.Connect with Arezki on Linkedin.