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Illumina-Grail deal not illegal, US FTC judge rules (update*)

Illumina has won at the Federal Trade Commission administrative court over regulators seeking to block its $7.1 billion acquisition of Grail, MLex has learned.
The ruling by Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell will be seen as a blow to the FTC’s merger enforcement agenda, which was found to

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Michael Acton

Senior Correspondent


Michael is a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, where he moved in 2020 after working in our Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels. Michael has a degree in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in History and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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