UK regulator delays GXO's Wincanton takeover, due to 'competition concerns'
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the country’s chief competition regulator, has delayed GXO’s ...
What with the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine kicking off last Thursday, the somewhat less explosive news that antitrust regulators in five anglophone countries were launching a working group to look at “supply chain collusion” got rather sidelined.
While carriers’ legal teams are facing an unusually busy year, it is worth remembering that a formal investigation has yet to be initiated.
“This isn’t an investigation yet,” Miguel Vaz (pictured below), competition and investigations partner at European law firm Fieldfisher’s regulatory group, told Premium.
“It ...
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