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Transurban's WestConnex acquisition put data at center stage, top Australian official says

By James Panichi ( June 16, 2022, 02:47 GMT | Insight) -- Transurban Group’s 2018 play for a majority stake in Sydney’s massive WestConnex tollway project marked a turning point for Australia’s competition enforcer’s use of data analysis to highlight unseen regulator risks, the agency’s top official has said. Gina Cass-Gottlieb said that the deal presented no direct competitive overlap, but Transurban’s control of massive data-sets raised red flags. Another ACCC official told an online conference that the agency’s data and intelligence unit often found it challenging to have senior officials place data at the center of their decision-making. Transurban Group’s 2018 play for a majority stake in Sydney’s massive WestConnex tollway project marked a turning point for Australia’s competition enforcer’s use of data analysis to highlight unseen regulator risks, the agency’s top official has said....

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