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Comment: Illumina’s EU court win sees judges stand up for dealmakers’ rights

Illumina’s victory today sees the top EU court safeguarding companies’ rights and the “requirements of the business world” in the EU’s system of merger control. Dealmakers are applauding.
The Court of Justice decided that in the European Commission’s fervor to capture potentially harmful deals, it had upset the balance of

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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.

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