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Comment: Amazon’s iRobot deal likely to garner close regulatory scrutiny, deserved or not

By Natalie McNelis
  • 01 Jun 2023 17:41
  • 01 Jun 2023 17:53
Amazon's plan to buy iRobot, notified to the European Commission today (see here), is a deal that probably wouldn’t have raised any regulatory eyebrows a few years ago.
Indeed, its acquisition in early 2018 of digital doorbell service Ring sailed through without any competition pushback whatsoever (see here). Now though,

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Natalie McNelis

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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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