This series, organised by Brunswick in cooperation with Forum Europe, will debate the main issues around competition and new ex-ante regulation in the EU. These discussion topics will be split across two sessions with different panellists debating the issues at hand.
The first session was held on 3 December, and the second session took place on 10 February 2021. Keep an eye on this website or subscribe to our event updates for further information.
10 February 2021 | 15:00 – 16:15 CET
Following the success of the first event, join Brunswick Group and Forum Europe for a second discussion around the politicisation of antitrust policy. The panel will discuss the broad themes of this debate and more, including:
Thomas Janssens, Global Head - Antitrust, Competition and Trade Group, Freshfields John is a Senior Advisor in our Regulatory and Public Affairs practice. He is a former lawyer and was a partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he founded and managed the Brussels office and led the Global Competition Practice. Prior to Freshfields, John worked as a case officer in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition.
John is a Senior Advisor in our Regulatory and Public Affairs practice. He is a former lawyer and was a partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he founded and managed the Brussels office and led the Global Competition Practice. Prior to Freshfields, John worked as a case officer in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition.
John assists clients on the policy and communications aspects of competition and foreign investment challenges, drawing on his broad understanding of the drivers of competition and regulatory intervention in Europe and elsewhere, and his experience advising high-profile clients across different industries and jurisdictions. He works with colleagues in both London and Brussels on some of our clients’ most complex and contentious matters. John also works with our teams globally providing senior counsel to clients on regulatory challenges in the context of cross-border transactions and investigations.
John’s recent experience includes advising Telia of Sweden on its ultimately successful acquisition of Bonnier Broadcasting following an in-depth investigation by the European Commission, another in-depth EC merger enquiry and current high profile antitrust investigations. John’s experience as a lawyer included Comcast on its bid for Sky TV in Europe and for the global assets of 21st Century Fox, and AB InBev’s acquisition of SABMiller both of which matters involved significant regulatory issues. He also represented a major investment bank during its successful defence of two European Commission investigations into alleged infringements in the credit default swaps market.
John was voted Antitrust Lawyer of the Year 2016 and received an Antitrust Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 both from Global Competition Review. He is a visiting senior fellow at King’s College, University of London. He is also Chairman of UKLegalFuture and a member of the task force of the American Bar Association on public interest in merger control. For 20 years, he was the consulting editor of the leading publication on merger control, Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control.
John Davies
Senior Advisor
Brunswick Group
Dr. Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte, Managing Partner, Hogan Lovells Kai-Uwe Kühn is a Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia who has advised on all aspects of competition matters for 25 years. He has served as the Chief Economist of DG Competition, European Commission.
His consultancy work has covered the whole range of competition matters from policy issues (e.g. the Commission Notice on Market Definition (1997), the 1997 Green paper on Vertical Restraints, the 2010 Vertical Guidelines) to mergers (e.g. GE/Honeywell merger (2001) including the court appeal), and antitrust matters (e.g. the Microsoft I on server interoperability). Most recently he acted as an expert in a large number of cartel damages cases, advised on complex antitrust cases (e.g. hotel bookings and another MFN case, radius clauses, and novel forms of exploitative abuses such as privacy and other contractual terms), as well as large number of merger cases in different jurisdictions. During his time as Chief Economist, he advised the Competition Commissioner on all competition cases and policy initiatives (in particular State Aid Modernization) and led the economic analysis on many large mergers (e.g. Deutsche Börse/NYSE, UPS/TNT, Univeral/EMI, H3G/Orange Austria, Western Digital/Hitachi, Outokumpu/Inoxum) and antitrust cases (e.g. Google, e-books, and the Standard Essential Patent cases), often in close cooperation with counterparts at the US agencies.
Kai-Uwe Kühn
Former Chief Economist
European Commission
Sir Jonathan Faull, Partner, Brunswick Group Based in the Linklaters’ Brussels office and Italian law-qualified, Annamaria represents clients in competition investigations before the European Commission (EC), the Italian Antitrust Authority as well as regulatory authorities worldwide. She advises on global transactions as well as global cartel investigations. She regularly counsels clients on abuse of dominance issues.
Annamaria’s experience spans many sectors. Most recently she has worked extensively in financial services, telecommunications, information technology, private equity and healthcare.
In 2017, Annamaria was seconded for three months to a key client as acting general counsel for competition, providing strategic advice and leading a team of competition lawyers in a wide range of business-critical matters.
Annamaria Mangiaracina
Partner
Linklaters
Sir Jonathan Faull, Partner, Brunswick Group Nicholas Levy’s practice focuses on EU and UK antitrust law.
Consistently recognized by Chambers as one of the leading antitrust lawyers in Europe, Nicholas was named Global Competition Review’s “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2015.
He has extensive experience in notifying mergers and joint ventures under the EU Merger Regulation, coordinating the notification of international transactions, and advising on all aspects of antitrust law, including anti-cartel enforcement, collaborative arrangements, vertical agreements, and unilateral conduct.
Nicholas joined the firm in 1990 and became a partner in 1999.
Nicholas Levy
Partner
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Thomas Janssens, Global Head - Antitrust, Competition and Trade Group, Freshfields Anna has a broad competition practice, including advising on mergers, cartels and market investigations. She has dealt extensively with the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as well as other regulators around the world.
Anna won the 2019 Client Choice Award for Competition & Antitrust in the European Union. She has also previously been named as “Lawyer of the Year – Under 40” by Global Competition Review, named in Management Today’s “35 under 35” list of high-flying young business women and recognised by W@Competition in their list of “30 in their 30s” notable women competition practitioners. Anna is recognised as a leading competition lawyer by Chambers, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal. She is a member of the Brussels Bar (A list), as well as being qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales).
Anna Lyle-Smythe
Partner
Slaughter and May
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