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Comment: KKR-TIM side deals ease EU concerns, but don’t please everyone

By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
  • 31 May 2024 16:40
  • 31 May 2024 16:36
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts managed to address competition enforcers’ uncertainties about its takeover of Telecom Italia’s fixed network with last-minute concessions made outside the formal EU remedy process. That’s unusual, but not unheard of.
The private-equity firm won unconditional approval (see here) after the European Commission felt comfortable with pledges that

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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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