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UK: Brexit means new mergers appointments at CMA

By  |  August 19, 2018

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has appointed Joel Bamford and Colin Raftery as senior mergers directors, in anticipation of the UK’s pending departure from the European Union.

As well as strengthening its senior management team, the CMA will also be recruiting a number of extra personnel to work on mergers cases.

The appointments of Bamford and Raftery, both previously directors of mergers at the CMA, follow an open recruitment process that attracted applications from a strong field of candidates.

They will take up their appointments on September 1, 2018, and will report to Executive Director Andrea Gomes da Silva.

The new appointments are in preparation for the UK exiting the EU, when it is expected there will be a significant increase in the number and complexity of the merger inquiries it will conduct.

Full Content: Gov UK

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