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Comment: UK’s Microsoft-Activision veto should alarm tech companies and EU merger regulator

By Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
  • 26 Apr 2023 16:20
  • 26 Apr 2023 16:20
Microsoft saw its acquisition of Activision Blizzard vetoed by the UK's merger regulator today in a move that underlines its skepticism of behavioral remedies — and one that ought to set alarm bells ringing at other tech companies, especially Broadcom.
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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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