CMA need not consider coronavirus in merger reviews, counsel claims
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The UK’s competition enforcer was entitled to disregard the potential effects of the covid-19 pandemic when it blocked JD Sports’ purchase of Footasylum because it received “wholly unilluminating” evidence from the retailers, the authority’s counsel has argued.
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