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Comment: DNB’s Sbanken takeover will test Norwegian regulator’s thinking on mavericks

By Nicholas Hirst and Andrew Boyce
  • 08 Jul 2021 11:39
  • 08 Jul 2021 11:39
A merger that creates a market share of 50 percent is always going to raise red flags. And all the more so when the target is a famous price maverick that has driven innovation across the market — including at the corpulent would-be buyer.

That is the conundrum facing Norwegia

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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.

Andrew Boyce

Correspondent


Andrew is a reporter covering merger reviews and competition policy for MLex in Brussels. He joined MLex in 2015 and holds a degree and a master’s degree in history from the University of Liverpool.

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