Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: New York City conference to focus on antitrust in emerging and developing countries, (Sep 15, 2014)

Concurrences Competition Laws Journal and New York University School of Law will host an antitrust conference on Friday, October 24, entitled “Antitrust in Emerging and Developing Countries: China, India, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa….” The conference will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at New York University’s School of Law.

Welcome remarks will be delivered by the Dean of NYU School of Law, Trevor Morrison, followed by introductory remarks by NYU law professor Eleanor M. Fox. The remainder of the conference will include the following panels, presentations, and speakers:

• Antitrust Policy in Emerging and Developing Countries—Santiago Levy Algazi;

• Making Markets Work for Development—Tania Begazo Gomez; President of the South African Competition Appeal Court and Judge of the High Court of Cape Town, Dennis Davis; R. Shyam Khemani; André Marques Gilberto; and R. Ian McEwin;

• Cartels & Other Concerted Practices: Proof, Evidence, Presumption, Enforcement—Percival Billimoria; Mark Gidley; Richean Li; Simon Roberts; and Agustin Ros;

• Lunch Keynote—William E. Kovacic;

• Dominance and Abuse: What’s the Problem? What are the Remedies?—Frank Fine; former Commissioner Geeta Gouri of the Competition Commission of India; Stephen Harris; Director General Francis W. Kariuki of the Competition Authority of Kenya; Chief of Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD, Hassan Qaqaya; and Mariana Tavares de Araujo;

• Mergers: Thinking Locally and Globally—George Cary; Huang Yong; Commissioner Alessandro Octaviani of the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense; and Elizabeth Xiao-Ru Wang; and

• Coordination & Cooperation with Developing Countries—Blanca Galindo Rodriguez, Head of the EC Directorate-General for Competition’s International Relations Unit; Director General Francis W. Kariuki of the Competition Authority of Kenya; and Director Randolph W. Tritell of the FTC’s Office of International Affairs.

Further information regarding this conference, and online registration, is available here.

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