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TPG-Vodafone merger ruling prompts Australian watchdog to wind down its legal challenge

By James Panichi
  • 04 Mar 2020 19:15
  • 04 Mar 2020 19:50
The legal bid to block a merger between Australia’s third and fourth telecommunications companies has ended in defeat for the country’s competition watchdog, which announced it wouldn’t appeal a court’s decision to allow TPG Telecom and Vodafone Hutchison Australia to join forces.
In a statement released today (see here), the

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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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