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Meta free to close Kustomer deal after German merger clearance (update*)

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 11 Feb 2022 06:11
  • 11 Feb 2022 06:25
Meta Platforms has won approval from the German competition authority to buy customer relationship management software supplier Kustomer — the final regulatory clearance it needed for the deal.
The Bundeskartellamt's announcement today averts a clash with the European Commission. The EU merger regulator cleared the deal at the end of January,

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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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