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NZME, Fairfax 'go full noise' with StuffMe appeal

'The notice of appeal doesn't put forward an irresistible case as to why the deal should now be signed off,' says competition expert.

Nick Grant
Fri, 26 May 2017

By hiring “one of the top QCs in the country in David Goddard” as well as hiring in two Russell McVeagh partners, Fairfax NZ and NZME have obviously decided on an expensive shock and awe approach to their High Court appeal of the Commerce Commission’s refusal of their merger proposal.

That’s the

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Nick Grant
Fri, 26 May 2017
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