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Comment: Big Tech's killer acquisitions caught in EU pincer movement

By Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
  • 13 Apr 2021 09:25
  • 13 Apr 2021 09:25
Life is getting tougher on the acquisitions front for the likes of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
Twin policy shifts mean that EU merger regulator will not only have advance warning of every acquisition by the tech platforms, it will also have a way to reel them in.

The claws

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Lewis Crofts

Editor-In-Chief


Lewis leads MLex's editorial strategy, content direction, quality and development. He has a reputation for breaking stories and providing analysis on complex legal disputes before regulators and courts around the globe. He has also developed MLex's unrivalled coverage of competition policy, litigation, regulation, Brexit and international investigations.

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.

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