BRUSSELS: General Electric's chief executive, Jeff Immelt, will meet the EU's antitrust chief on Tuesday, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday, amid an ongoing investigation into the US group's 12.4-bn-euro ($13.8bn) bid for Alstom.
Immelt will meet European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager in the afternoon, said the source.
GE is now seeking to convince the European Commission to approve the Alstom deal without concessions.
The company has a checkered history with the EU executive, which blocked its planned $42bn takeover of Honeywell International in 2001 but since then has cleared more than 50 deals.
Reuters
