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Air Canada faces in-depth EU inquiry into Transat deal

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 23 May 2020 01:29
  • 25 May 2020 00:06
Air Canada is facing an in-depth EU inquiry into its bid to buy Montreal-based competitor Transat AT amid concerns it would harm competition on routes between Canada and the European mainland and territories, MLex has learned.
The buyer passed up an opportunity to amend its 720 million Canadian dollars (471

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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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