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Comment: Merging companies face EU approval delays as coronavirus slows regulator's work

By Nicholas Hirst, Lewis Crofts and Andrew Boyce
  • 16 Mar 2020 05:39
  • 10 Apr 2020 07:00

Billion-dollar mergers may have their approvals delayed as the Covid-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to EU investigators charged with collecting market information and conducting probes while respecting companies’ procedural rights.
While there is little doubt the European Commission will bend over backwards to accommodate corporate needs, as it did in

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Andrew Boyce

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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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