Crossing Merger Control Frontiers: What are the New Borders?
Date and time
Location
Paul Hastings
96 Boulevard Haussmann 75008 Paris FranceDescription
CROSSING MERGER CONTROL FRONTIERS: WHAT ARE THE NEW BORDERS?
3rd ANNUAL GLOBAL MERGER CONTROL CONFERENCE
08.00
Registration
08.30 - 08.45
Welcome & Introductory remarks
Pierre KIRCH | Partner, Paul Hastings, Brussels/Paris
08.45 - 09.15
Defining the New Frontiers of Merger Control Regimes: What's on the Regulators' Radar?
Jacques STEENBERGEN | Director General, Belgian Competition Authority, Brussels
09.15 - 10.15
Enforcer round-table: New Strategies of Merger Control Optimization: Forum Shopping vs. Extra-territoriality
Elizabeth KRAUS | Deputy Director of the Office of International Affairs, FTC, Washington DC
Thomas DEISENHOFER | Head of Unit, Unit E4, Merger Control, Basic industries, manufacturing and agriculture, DG COMP, Brussels
Sheldon MILLS | Senior Director, Mergers, CMA, London
Charles BERTIN | Deputy Head of Merger Unit, French Competition Authority, Paris
Antonio CAPOBIANCO I Senior expert, Competition Division, OECD, Paris
Moderator: Scott HATAWAY | Partner, Paul Hastings, Washington DC
Coffee
10.30 - 11.30
Shifting Sands of Characterization of Mergers: How to Cope with Multiple Approaches around the Globe?
Andreas BARDONG | Head of Unit, Merger Control, Bundeskartellamt, Bonn
Alessandra TONAZZI | Head of International Affairs Unit, Italian Competition Authority, Rome
Gilvandro ARAUJO | Commissioner, CADE, Brasilia
Alvaro RAMOS I Director Legal, Cisco Systems, Brussels
Moderators: MJ MOLTENBREY | Partner, Paul Hastings, Washington DC
11.30 - 12.30
Survivor Showcase Session with In-House Counsel: Day-to-day Challenge of Merger Control Worldwide
Camilla JAIN HOLTSE | Chief Legal Counsel, Head of Competition Compliance, Maersk Line, Copenhagen
Jean-Yves ART | Associate General Counsel, Microsoft, Brussels
Dina KALLAY | Director, Intellectual Property and Competition, Ericsson, Washington DC
Jean-Yves TROCHON | Vice President Competition Commission, ICC France | Vice President French Association of In-House Lawyers (AFJE), Paris
Moderator: Brian A. FACEY | Parner, Blakes, Toronto
12.30 - 12.45
Closing Keynote Speech
William E. KOVACIC | Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC
13.00
Walking lunch
* To be confirmed.
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