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Google-Fitbit deal's EU review has keen focus on data dimension, Vestager says

By Natalie McNelis
  • 16 Jul 2020 09:36
  • 16 Jul 2020 09:36
Google’s takeover of fitness-products maker Fitbit is being reviewed by the EU's antitrust regulator with "great interest" due to the importance of data for the deal, Margrethe Vestager said today.
“Obviously we are looking into [the Google-Fitbit deal] with great interest, as we do with cases where there is an

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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.

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