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About the conference

This first edition of the International Mergers Conference will take place in ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº on Wednesday 19 February 2020. The conference is organised by Concurrences in partnership with ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº with the support of panel and media sponsors. Attendance is by registration only. No on-site registration. Photos will be taken at the event; attendees agree for the organiser to use these photos, unless otherwise required. The list of participants will be communicated to the speakers.

The programme

08.15 Coffee & Registration

08.45 Introductory remarks Deni MANTZARI | Lecturer, Competition Law and Policy
Acting Director, Centre for Law, Economics and Society, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº

09.00 Opening discussion - New Challenges for Competition Law: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Brexit, FDI, Public interest...

Sir John VICKERS | Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
Frédéric JENNY | Chairman, OECD Competition Committee, Paris

09.45 Panel 1 - Rethinking the judicial scrutiny of merger enforcement in the digital era: administrative burden, standard of proof and judicial revie

Eugène BUTTIGIEG | Judge, General Court of the EU, Luxembourg
Peter FREEMAN CBE QC (Hon) | Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal, London
Colin RAFTERY | Senior Director for Mergers, Competition and Markets Authority, London
Ingrid VANDENBORRE | Partner, Antitrust/Competition, Skadden, Brussels
Moderator: Richard WHISH QC (Hon) | Emeritus Professor, King’s College London

11.15 Coffee Break

11.30 Panel 2 - Digital mergers: Need for Reform?

Luisa AFFUSO | Chief Economist, Ofcom, London
Thilo KLEIN | Executive Vice President, Compass Lexecon, London/Berlin/Düsseldorf
Claire JEFFS | Partner, Slaughter & May, London
Nate MILLER | Expert, Cornerstone Research - Saleh Romeih Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Pierre REGIBEAU | Chief Economist, DG COMP, Brussels
Moderator: Amelia FLETCHER | Professor, University of East Anglia, Norwich

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Panel 3 - Merger control and ’non-competition concerns’: Industrial Policy, Geopolitics, Sustainability, Privacy

Hanna ANTTILAINEN | Head of Unit B4: Energy and Environment (mergers), DG COMP, Brussels
Etienne CHANTREL | Head of Mergers Unit, Autorité de la concurrence, Paris
Damien NEVEN | Professor of Economics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, affiliated to Compass Lexecon
Bill KOVACIC | Professor, George Washington University - Non-executive Director, CMA, London
Nicholas LEVY | Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, London
Josh WHITE | Vice President, Analysis Group, London
Moderator: Ioannis KOKKORIS | Professor, Queen Mary University, London

15.30 Coffee Break

16.00 Panel 4 - Merger Hotchpotch - Enforcement and Procedure: Due Diligence, Gun jumping, Due Process, Remedies

Sara ASHALL | Counsel, Shearman & Sterling, London/Brussels
Manish DAS | Head of Competition Law, Lloyds Banking Group, London
Irene DE ANGELIS | Head of Antitrust Affairs, Intesa Sanpaolo, Milan
Frank QI | Senior Legal Counsel, Qualcomm, San Diego
Anneleen STRAETEMANS | Head of Legal & Corporate Affairs - Europe, ZX Ventures, London
Chair: Helen JENKINS | Partner, Oxera, Oxford*

17.30 Closing discussion

Simon HOLMES | Ordinary member, Competition Appeal Tribunal, London
Ioannis LIANOS | President, Hellenic Competition Commission - Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Laws, ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº (on leave)