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'Killer acquisition' challenges should require lighter standard of proof, senior EU lawyer says

By Nicholas Hirst ( December 10, 2019, 15:24 GMT | Insight) -- Challenging "killer acquisitions" should require a lighter standard of proof from EU courts, the European Commission's top competition lawyer said today. Theofanis Christoforou also said a previous ruling had limited enforcers' ability to scrutinize common ownership and called, more generally, for a shift in the evidentiary burden away from enforcers toward defendants.Challenging "killer acquisitions" should require a lighter standard of proof from the EU courts, the European Commission's top competition lawyer Theofanis Christoforou said today....

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