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Circumscribed SLC test in Australian merger bill claimed as win by lawyers, businesses

Australian businesses appear to have had a breakthrough in their battle to contain a government plan to dramatically expand the “substantial lessening of competition,” of SLC, test in merger reviews, with proposed legislation dialing back the scope of the changes.
The draft legislation presented to the Australian Parliament today has

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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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