The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal grants permission to a leading digital rights organisation to intervene in the application brought by a Big Tech company regarding a merger decision (Meta / Giphy)

Global NGO Privacy International, represented by Hausfeld, was granted permission by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) to intervene in the application brought by Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) pursuant to s. 120 of the Enterprise Act 2002 for review of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)’s decision that Meta should divest itself of GIPHY, Inc (GIPHY), which Meta acquired in May 2020. Privacy International (PI) previously participated in Phase 1 of the CMA’s review of the Facebook