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Meta defeats German regulator over need to notify Facebook-Kustomer merger

By Lewis Crofts and Natalie McNelis ( November 24, 2022, 15:52 GMT | Insight) -- Meta scored a victory yesterday with a German court ruling that the national competition authority wrongly forced it to notify its proposed takeover of software specialist Kustomer, MLex has learned. The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf faulted the Bundeskartellamt over how it calculated the extent of Kustomer’s business in Germany, giving its first interpretation of new rules designed to subject more tech mergers to scrutiny.Meta scored a victory yesterday with a German court ruling that the national competition authority wrongly forced it to notify its proposed takeover of software specialist Kustomer, MLex has learned....

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