Agencies and general counsel: what’s on their radar? - 8th Annual Global Merger Control Conference

 
November 24, 2020

Dechert’s global antitrust/competition team co-hosted with Concurrences Review the virtual edition of the 8th Global Merger Conference. The series of three webinars reviewed the latest developments and issues on mergers from an antitrust point of view. Featured speaker Isabelle de Silva, President of the French Competition Authority also joined us for a conversation on healthcare enforcement.

If you have any questions over one of these topics, please feel free to reach out to one of our Dechert team members listed below.

Session 1: Joint Interview with Isabelle de Silva and the ECJ Three/O2 Ruling: Everything Changed? 

Session 2: Non-Horizontal Mergers: Towards a Change of Analysis?

Session 3: In-house Counsel Showcase Session and Closing Discussion
 

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Session 1

December 2, 2020 

Joint Interview with Isabelle de Silva

Speakers:
Isabelle de Silva | President, Autorité de la concurrence, Paris
Mélanie Thill-Tayara | Partner, Dechert, Paris
Laurent Flochel | Vice President, CRA, Paris

Read the Synthesis here.

The ECJ Three/O2 Ruling: Everything Changed? 

Moderator:
Laurence Bary | National Partner, Dechert, Paris

Speakers:
Gabriella Muscolo | Commissioner, Italian Competition Authority - AGCM, Rome
Ian Forrester | Former Judge, General Court of the EU, Luxembourg
David Foster | Director, Frontier Economics, London, Brussels
Gabriel Lluch | General Counsel Competition, Orange, Paris

Read the Synthesis here.

 

Interview with Isabelle de Silva and the ECJ Three/O2 ruling

 

Session 2

December 3, 2020

Non-Horizontal Mergers: Towards a Change of Analysis?

Moderators:
Mike Cowie | Partner, Dechert, Philadelphia
Clemens York | Partner, Dechert, Brussels/Frankfurt 

Speakers:
Joel Bamford | Senior Director for Mergers, CMA, London
Luis Campos | Associate Director, Frontier Economics, Paris/London
Etienne Chantrel | Head of Mergers Unit, Autorité de la concurrence, Paris
Jonathan Sage | Government and Regulatory Affairs Executive, IBM,  London
Kelly Signs | Deputy Assistant Director of the - Office of Policy Coordination, FTC, Washington D.C.
Hans Zenger | Merger Coordinator - Chief Economist Team, DG COMP, Brussels 

Read the Synthesis here.

 

Non-Horizontal Mergers: Towards a Change of Analysis?

 

Session 3

December 4, 2020

In-House Counsel Showcase Session (Level Playing Field, Market Definition, Mergers Which Do Not Meet Thresholds, Non-Competition Law Considerations...)

Moderator: 
Mélanie Thill-Tayara | Partner, Dechert, Paris 

Speakers:
Pascal Belmin | Head of EU Regulatory Affairs, Airbus, Paris
François Garnier | Group General Counsel, Ipsen, Paris
Clara Ingen-Housz | Chief Compliance Officer - Head of Legal (Competition, Corruption, Embargoes), Saint-Gobain, Paris 

Read the Synthesis here.

Closing Discussion - The Brussels Minute: The COVID-19 Changes That Could Last Long-Term; and Some Reflections on 30 Years of EU Merger Control

Speakers:
Cecilio Madero | Former Deputy Director-General for mergers, DG COMP, Brussels
Alec Burnside | Partner, Dechert, Brussels

 

In-House Counsel Showcase Session and Closing Discussion

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