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Comment: Alstom-Bombardier review shows EU heeding Chinese rivals when the market does

By Nicholas Hirst and Natalie McNelis
  • 28 Jan 2021 08:58
  • 28 Jan 2021 08:58

After Siemens and Alstom’s merger was blocked in 2019, one might have thought that the European Commission didn’t consider China's train giant CRRC to be a contender in Europe.

< The commission found that allowing the two European train makers to combine would put too much of the market in their hands,<

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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.

Natalie McNelis

Senior Correspondent


Natalie McNelis covers mergers for MLex in Brussels. Before joining MLex in 2017, 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.

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