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Rail freight operator Lineas targeted by state aid complaint

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 15 Jul 2021 07:37
  • 15 Jul 2021 07:37
Lineas, Europe's largest private rail freight operator, is the subject of a formal state aid complaint to the European Commission, MLex has learned.
At the center of concerns is the acquisition of a majority stake in the company by private equity fund Argos Wityu in 2015 for about 20 million

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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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