Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: Georgetown presents 8th Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium, (Jul 17, 2014)
Georgetown Law is holding its 8th Annual Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium on September 10, 2014, offering academics, corporate executives, economists, lawyers, and policy makers a forum to discuss current issues in competition law and policy. The event will be held at Georgetown Law’s Hart Auditorium.
Current and former enforcement officials from the United States, European Commission, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico will participate in the symposium. Presentations and discussions will focus on areas of “greatest concern to multinational enterprises,” including developments in global merger enforcement, cartel enforcement and policy, the spectrum of permissive and questionable vertical restraints; “best practices” and perspectives from leading in-house counsel; and “hot topics” on global enforcement agency agendas.
William M. Treanor, Executive Vice President and Dean of Georgetown Law, will kick off the symposium with a welcome and introduction, followed by a keynote address presented by William Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. The remainder of the symposium will include the following presentations and speakers:
Five-Year Perspective from the European Commission—EC Commissioner Joaquin Almunia;
A Conversation with the Commissioner—EC Commissioner Joaquin Almunia and Sharis A. Pozen;
Cartel Enforcement and Policy—Associate General Counsel Aimee L. Immundo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brent C. Snyder, Kevin Coates of the European Commission, Georg M. Berrisch, and Kathryn Hellings;
Luncheon and Address—FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez;
Hot Topics in Enforcement and Policy—Herbert Hovenkamp, UK Competition and Markets Authority Chief Executive Alex Chisholm, Steven C. Sunshine, Michael Whinston, and Steven C. Salop;
IP, High-Tech and Antitrust—Deputy Assistant Attorney General Renata Hesse, FTC Commissioner Joshua D. Wright, Christopher Thomas, Miranda Cole, and James Kress; and
Merger Enforcement and Policy—Deputy Assistant Attorney General David I. Gelfand, FTC Competition Bureau Director Deborah Feinstein, Senior Deputy Commissioner of Competition Lisa Campbell, Janusz Ordover, and Deborah A. Garza.
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