Georgetown Law’s 14th Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium

WASHINGTON – On Monday and Tuesday, October 5-6, 2020, Georgetown Law’s Office of Executive and Continuing Legal Education will host a two-day virtual conference on global antitrust enforcement.

WHAT

Join leading global competition enforcement officials, industry professionals, and academics for a virtual symposium as they discuss and debate antitrust’s cutting edge issues. Attendees will:

• Hear directly from global enforcers on antitrust developments outside the U.S.
• Understand how antitrust policy may change following the 2020 U.S. elections
• Review analytical and enforcement issues raised by multi-sided digital platforms
• Discuss key merger enforcement initiatives from the past year, current debates, and likely future developments

WHO

Keynote Speakers:

• Olivier Guersent, Director General, Directorate-General for Competition, European Commission (Day 1)
• Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, Department of Justice (Day 2)

Participants include:

Rachel Brandenburger, Hogan Lovells, Reiko Aoki, Commissioner, Japan Fair Trade Commission, Frederic Depoortere, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Cani Fernández, Spanish Competition Authority, Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo, Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense, Andreas Mundt, German Federal Cartel Office, Bill Baer, Brookings Institution, Peter Huston, Baker Botts, Anne Lee, Covington & Burling LLP, Leigh Oliver, Hogan Lovells, Nicholas Banasevic, European Commission, Daniel Francis, Federal Trade Commission, Ricardo Pons Mestre, Hogan Lovells, Fiona Scott Morton, Yale University, Alexander Okuliar, Department of Justice, Maria Raptis, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Catriona Hatton, Baker Botts, Gail Levine, Federal Trade Commission, James Marshall, Covington & Burling LLP, Barry Nigro, Department of Justice, Keith Waehrer, Bates White

Sponsored by Baker Botts LLP, Covington & Burling LLP, Hogan Lovells, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Bates White LLC and Charles River Associates

WHEN

Monday, October 5
11:15am – 3:30pm EDT

Tuesday, October 6
11:00am – 3:00pm EDT

Full agenda here.

RSVP

Media wishing to attend should RSVP via one email to both: eam303@georgetown.edu & cle@law.georgetown.edu.

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