Exceptional Approval of Major Mergers: London and Brussels Compared

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Ian Forrester, Stefan Mahoney, May 18, 2009

This note records a short, urgent, highly-publicised attempt by a group of concerned citizens, the Merger Action Group (“MAG”), to challenge a rare governmental decision not to expose a government-favoured merger to the scrutiny of the otherwise applicable competition rules. The initiative was unsuccessful in appealing to the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which found, hea