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Comment: Veto for Lufthansa’s ITA deal hangs in balance amid political storm

By Natalie McNelis and Lewis Crofts
  • 30 May 2024 10:50
  • 30 May 2024 11:26
Deutsche Lufthansa’s bid to gobble up its beleaguered rival Italia Trasporto Aereo was always going to be a hard sell. 
Europe’s richest airline — which already also owns the flag carriers in Austria, Belgium and Switzerland — taking over the flag carrier in Europe’s third-largest airline market would certainly require some

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Natalie McNelis

Senior Correspondent


Natalie McNelis covers mergers for MLex in Brussels. Before joining MLex in 2017, she spent 20 years as an international trade and competition lawyer in law firms including Stibbe and WilmerHale. Natalie has a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College, a JD from Harvard Law School and an LLM in EU law from KU Leuven. She is admitted to the bar in New York.

Lewis Crofts

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Lewis leads MLex's editorial strategy, content direction, quality and development. He has a reputation for breaking stories and providing analysis on complex legal disputes before regulators and courts around the globe. He has also developed MLex's unrivalled coverage of competition policy, litigation, regulation, Brexit and international investigations.

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