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Nokia-Infinera deal has tips for making innovation arguments in EU merger reviews

By Andrew Boyce ( May 12, 2025, 11:37 GMT | Comment) -- Finnish technology champion Nokia told the EU merger regulator that buying rival Infinera would create the necessary scale to innovate and stay competitive against US and Chinese rivals — an argument that politicians in Europe have urged regulators to take more seriously of late. The Nokia deal was approved without conditions, but the newly published decision holds lessons for other companies keen to make a similar case. Nokia argued that its $2.3 billion deal to buy Infinera would give it the scale to innovate and compete with global rivals — and customers agreed, according to the recently published EU decision on the deal....

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