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Hutchison ruling risks making merger control too exacting, former EU competition economist says

By Natalie McNelis and Nicholas Hirst
  • 04 Jun 2020 12:49
  • 04 Jun 2020 13:16
CK Hutchison’s shock court win against an EU merger veto last week risks making it too difficult for competition regulators to intervene, according to a former senior European Commission official who helped reach the decision in 2016. 
“I believe [the EU General Court’s] analysis is not well documented, and

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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.

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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