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Comment: LVMH's Tiffany deal gets caught up in Australia's Chinese regulatory pushback (update*)

By Laurel Henning, Marissa Lague and James Panichi
  • 09 Apr 2020 06:06
  • 12 Apr 2020 22:49
The announcement this week that European luxury-goods giant  LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton's acquisition of New York-based Tiffany would face a regulatory delay of six months in Australia as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic could have struck international observers as extraordinary.
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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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