Antitrust Antitrust

EU buyer cartels, no-poach agreements in Vestager's sights as enforcers prepare raids

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
  • 22 Oct 2021 06:03
  • 22 Oct 2021 06:03
EU cartel enforcers are poised to conduct a series of dawn raids, the bloc's competition chief said today, warning over collusion in both purchases and hiring practices.

Inspections last week in the wood-pulp sector were "just the start of a series of raids that we’re planning for the months to come," Margrethe Vestager

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Nicholas Hirst

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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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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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