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Air Canada's Transat bid sees EU weigh consequences of a veto

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 10 Mar 2021 10:09
  • 10 Mar 2021 10:09
Air Canada's bid to buy rival Transat has seen the EU's merger regulator quiz market players on what would happen if the deal were vetoed, MLex has learned.
The questions suggest that the Canadian flag carrier is trying to invoke a trapdoor in EU merger rules that allows an anticompetitive

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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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