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5 April 20231 minute read

Episode 5: A Spotlight On Retail Mergers

In this episode, partner and head of the UK competition team, Sarah Smith, speaks with Paul Reeve from economists RBB about what happens when you make a merger notification to the CMA. Paul and Sarah talk through a hypothetical transaction in the retail sector in order to demonstrate how the CMA determine which products compete with each other, the area in which they compete and how a merger’s effect on competition is assessed.

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