Crossing Merger Control Frontiers: What are the New Borders?

CROSSING MERGER CONTROL FRONTIERS: WHAT ARE THE NEW BORDERS?

3rd ANNUAL GLOBAL MERGER CONTROL CONFERENCE

08.00

Registration

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08.30 - 08.45

Welcome & Introductory remarks

Pierre KIRCH | Partner, Paul Hastings, Brussels/Paris

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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

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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

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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

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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

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12.30 - 12.45

Closing Keynote Speech

William E. KOVACIC | Professor, George Washington University, Washington DC

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13.00

Walking lunch

* To be confirmed.

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