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8.30: Welcome coffee and registration
9.00: Chairs’ morning welcome
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter and May, London and Brussels
Ilene Knable Gotts, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York
9.15: Enforcers roundtable
An international panel of enforcers exploring global perspectives on merger control enforcement
Moderator:
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter and May, London and Brussels
Panel:
Carles Esteva Mosso, Acting Deputy Director General for Mergers, DG Competition, European Commission, Brussels
Isabelle de Silva, President, French Competition Authority, Paris
Andrea Coscelli, Chief Executive, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), London
Barry Nigro Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice, Washington DC
10.25: Coffee break
10.50: Merger control in Europe
- Implications of Brexit for EU merger control
- Vertical restraints and conglomerate effects
- Development of EU and member state FDI regimes
- Innovation and data aggregation
Moderator:
Laurent Garzaniti, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Brussels
Panel:
Robbert Snelders, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Brussels
Bojana Ignjatovic, RBB Economics, London
Nicole Kar, Linklaters, London
Timothy Lamb, Associate General Counsel, Competition and Regulatory, Facebook, London
12.00: Networking lunch
13.00: Merger control in the Americas
- Antitrust under Trump
- CFIUS and developments in FDI
- Vertical restraints and conglomerate effects
- Innovation and data aggregation
- Remedies
Moderator:
Ilene Knable Gotts, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York
Panel:
Marc Williamson, Latham & Watkins, Washington DC
Calvin Goldman QC, Goodmans, Toronto
Amilcar Peredo, Basham, Ringe and Correa, Mexico City
Martha Samuelson, Analysis Group, Boston
14.10: Coffee break
14.35: Merger control in BRICs
- How long are procedures taking?
- Are non-competition issues being raised?
- Is the approach to remedies different from the EU and US?
Moderator:
Vassili Moussis, Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune, Tokyo
Panel:
Shweta Shroff Chopra, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, New Delhi
Natalie Yeung, Slaughter and May, Hong Kong
Anna Numerova, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, Moscow
15.45: Theories of harm: have authorities allowed too many mergers to go through?
- Should antitrust objectives be broadened to include other considerations, such as;
- Impact on employment
- Impact on SME’s
- Should we be looking at the impact on innovation and consumer protection?
Moderator:
Suyong Kim, Hogan Lovells, London and Brussels
Panel:
Oliver Bethell, Director, EMEA Competition, Google, London
Barry Nigro Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice, Washington DC
Ronan Harty, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York
Valérie Meunier, Compass Lexecon, Paris
16.55: Chairs' closing remarks
Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter and May, London and Brussels
Ilene Knable Gotts, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York
17.00 onwards: All delegates are invited to attend a drinks reception kindly hosted by RBB Economics
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