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Comment: German garbage sector holds lessons for Big Tech in small acquisitions

By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
  • 01 Feb 2022 04:15
  • 01 Feb 2022 06:49
Big Tech executives, whose appetite for deals has come in for criticism and could trigger new regulations, ought to take a look at Germany’s waste management sector.

Recycling group Remondis may become subject to new German merger rules that can require super-dominant companies to seek approval for almost any acquisition

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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.

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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