By Jaime Llinares Taboada
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that it has decided it won't refer Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s planned $17.4 billion acquisition of pharmaceutical-testing company PPD Inc. to a phase 2 investigation.
The regulator had announced a probe into the deal in October, to see if it would lead to a lessening of competition.
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