Over the past few years, there have been indications of a certain ‘politicisation’ of antitrust policy. In addition to competition decisions making more headlines, parliaments are writing reports and hearing CEOs on antitrust issues, as trade tensions loom due to decisions on tax, subsidies and potential market intervention. Governments and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic have been outspoken on their views on enforcement.
We will be discussing these issues and more, including:
Sir Jonathan Faull joined Brunswick after a distinguished career at the European Commission working at the highest level on a wide range of policies including competition, justice and home affairs, transport and financial services. As the Commission’s most senior British official his recent roles included Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, as well as Director-General of the Task Force for strategic issues related to the UK Referendum.
Sir Jonathan became Director for Competition Policy at the Directorate-General for Competition in 1995, Deputy Director-General in charge of State aid in 1999 and Spokesman and Director-General of Press and Communication in 1999. He was Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs (later Justice, Freedom and Security) from 2003 to 2010 and then Director-General in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA) between 2010 and 2015. Latterly he has served as Director-General of the Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum.
He studied law at the University of Sussex and has an MA from the College of Europe in Bruges. He has been a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po, a visiting fellow of the University of Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies, a visiting professor at the College of Europe since 2009 and Emeritus Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) since 1989.
He is a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a member of the boards of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris and the Centre for European Reform in London. Sir Jonathan has also been named by the University of Sussex as Honorary Professor and Fellow of UKTPO within the Business school, as well as Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Jonathan was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2017 for services to UK relations with the European Union.
Sir Jonathan Faull
Partner
Brunswick Group
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte is a Partner in the Antitrust and Competition group of Hogan Lovells.
Clients come to Salomé for her innovative and hands-on solutions to antitrust issues. She advises on all aspects of EU competition law, but has significant experience in cross-border mergers and strategic joint ventures, high-stakes investigations and complex vertical issues.
She has successfully advised clients on phase I and phase II merger cases before the European Commission and coordinated multinational merger filings all over the world. She is sought by clients for her particular expertise in competition issues relating to the digital economy, including artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, platforms and data.
Salomé was recently re-elected as Vice-Chair of the Competition Policy Committee of AmCham EU. She frequently lectures on EU competition law at academic institutions, such as Harvard Law School, College de Europe, IE Law Schoole, ESADE, and VUB, as well as at industry fora. She also serves as Elected Director on the Board of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in Cambridge (US) and is a former President of the Harvard Club of Belgium.
Salomé graduated summa cum laude in law and economics from the University of Deusto (Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura) and holds a master of laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School, where she was an associate fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. She obtained a PhD in law from the EUI in Florence and has been a Fulbright scholar.
She is admitted to practice in Belgium and Spain.
Dr. Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte
Managing Partner
Hogan Lovells
Thomas heads Freshfields’ global antitrust, competition and trade practice group – a role he combines with his dynamic and broad client practice.
In client mandates, Thomas immerses himself in the business of his clients in order to provide innovative, tailored solutions to global antitrust issues. In leading Freshfields’ antitrust practice, he works with colleagues across the firm to apply our energy, thought leadership and values to stay on top of their game.
He advises on EU and international antitrust law, covering transactional and conduct matters as well as related litigation. Clients turn to Thomas for complex EU and international mandates, especially those requiring strategic management of cross-border challenges and parallel proceedings before several authorities. He brings international experience and perspective across all areas of antitrust risk and compliance in a wide range of industries, including the fast-moving digital economy. The nature of his work also involves leading teams of Freshfields lawyers and local counsel around the world.
Thomas Janssens
Global Head – Antitrust, Competition and Trade Group
Freshfields
Tommaso Valletti has a magna cum laude degree in engineering from Turin and holds a MSc and a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. He is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, and also Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). He has previously taught at the London School of Economics, Telecom ParisTech/Ecole Polytechnique, and Turin.
Tommaso is currently the Head of the Department of Economics & Public Policy at Imperial College Business School. He is a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Financial Conduct Authority. He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) between September 2016 and August 2019.
Tommaso Valletti
Professor & Head of Department, Economics and Public Policy
Imperial College
Ms. Vandenborre has consistently been named as a leading practitioner in Who’s Who Legal guides in both competition and life sciences. In 2020, she was named Competition Lawyer of the Year at the Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards, which also recognized her work advising Aspen in relation to the European Commission’s Article 102 investigation of the company’s pricing practices as an Impact Case of the Year. In 2018 she was shortlisted for Transatlantic Disputes/Regulatory Lawyer of the Year at the Transatlantic Legal Awards, hosted by Legal Week and The American Lawyer. Ms. Vandenborre also was part of the Skadden team awarded M&A Deal of the Year at the IFLR1000 Europe 2020 Awards for its representation of Gilead Sciences, Inc. in its US$5.1 billion transaction with Galapagos NV. In 2016, she received the ILO Client Choice Award for the category of EU Competition and Antitrust, awarded by The International Law Office in recognition of individual partners who excel across the full spectrum of client service. She currently serves as nongovernmental adviser to the intergovernmental International Competition Network.
Ingrid Vandenborre
Partner,
Antitrust & Competition
Skadden
Join the Chair and our expert panellists for their views on the politicisation of antitrust and competition regulation.
Sir Jonathan Faull joined Brunswick after a distinguished career at the European Commission working at the highest level on a wide range of policies including competition, justice and home affairs, transport and financial services. As the Commission’s most senior British official his recent roles included Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, as well as Director-General of the Task Force for strategic issues related to the UK Referendum.
Sir Jonathan became Director for Competition Policy at the Directorate-General for Competition in 1995, Deputy Director-General in charge of State aid in 1999 and Spokesman and Director-General of Press and Communication in 1999. He was Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs (later Justice, Freedom and Security) from 2003 to 2010 and then Director-General in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA) between 2010 and 2015. Latterly he has served as Director-General of the Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum.
He studied law at the University of Sussex and has an MA from the College of Europe in Bruges. He has been a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po, a visiting fellow of the University of Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies, a visiting professor at the College of Europe since 2009 and Emeritus Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) since 1989.
He is a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a member of the boards of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris and the Centre for European Reform in London. Sir Jonathan has also been named by the University of Sussex as Honorary Professor and Fellow of UKTPO within the Business school, as well as Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Jonathan was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2017 for services to UK relations with the European Union.
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte is a Partner in the Antitrust and Competition group of Hogan Lovells.
Clients come to Salomé for her innovative and hands-on solutions to antitrust issues. She advises on all aspects of EU competition law, but has significant experience in cross-border mergers and strategic joint ventures, high-stakes investigations and complex vertical issues. She has successfully advised clients on phase I and phase II merger cases before the European Commission and coordinated multinational merger filings all over the world. She is sought by clients for her particular expertise in competition issues relating to the digital economy, including artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, platforms and data.
Salomé was recently re-elected as Vice-Chair of the Competition Policy Committee of AmCham EU. She frequently lectures on EU competition law at academic institutions, such as Harvard Law School, College de Europe, IE Law Schoole, ESADE, and VUB, as well as at industry fora. She also serves as Elected Director on the Board of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in Cambridge (US) and is a former President of the Harvard Club of Belgium.
Salomé graduated summa cum laude in law and economics from the University of Deusto (Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura) and holds a master of laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School, where she was an associate fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. She obtained a PhD in law from the EUI in Florence and has been a Fulbright scholar.
She is admitted to practice in Belgium and Spain.
Thomas heads Freshfields’ global antitrust, competition and trade practice group – a role he combines with his dynamic and broad client practice.
In client mandates, Thomas immerses himself in the business of his clients in order to provide innovative, tailored solutions to global antitrust issues. In leading Freshfields’ antitrust practice, he works with colleagues across the firm to apply our energy, thought leadership and values to stay on top of their game.
He advises on EU and international antitrust law, covering transactional and conduct matters as well as related litigation. Clients turn to Thomas for complex EU and international mandates, especially those requiring strategic management of cross-border challenges and parallel proceedings before several authorities. He brings international experience and perspective across all areas of antitrust risk and compliance in a wide range of industries, including the fast-moving digital economy. The nature of his work also involves leading teams of Freshfields lawyers and local counsel around the world.
Tommaso Valletti has a magna cum laude degree in engineering from Turin and holds a MSc and a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. He is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, and also Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). He has previously taught at the London School of Economics, Telecom ParisTech/Ecole Polytechnique, and Turin.
Tommaso is currently the Head of the Department of Economics & Public Policy at Imperial College Business School. He is a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Financial Conduct Authority. He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) between September 2016 and August 2019.
Ms. Vandenborre has consistently been named as a leading practitioner in Who’s Who Legal guides in both competition and life sciences. In 2020, she was named Competition Lawyer of the Year at the Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards, which also recognized her work advising Aspen in relation to the European Commission’s Article 102 investigation of the company’s pricing practices as an Impact Case of the Year. In 2018 she was shortlisted for Transatlantic Disputes/Regulatory Lawyer of the Year at the Transatlantic Legal Awards, hosted by Legal Week and The American Lawyer. Ms. Vandenborre also was part of the Skadden team awarded M&A Deal of the Year at the IFLR1000 Europe 2020 Awards for its representation of Gilead Sciences, Inc. in its US$5.1 billion transaction with Galapagos NV. In 2016, she received the ILO Client Choice Award for the category of EU Competition and Antitrust, awarded by The International Law Office in recognition of individual partners who excel across the full spectrum of client service. She currently serves as nongovernmental adviser to the intergovernmental International Competition Network.
Sir Jonathan Faull joined Brunswick after a distinguished career at the European Commission working at the highest level on a wide range of policies including competition, justice and home affairs, transport and financial services. As the Commission’s most senior British official his recent roles included Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, as well as Director-General of the Task Force for strategic issues related to the UK Referendum.
Sir Jonathan became Director for Competition Policy at the Directorate-General for Competition in 1995, Deputy Director-General in charge of State aid in 1999 and Spokesman and Director-General of Press and Communication in 1999. He was Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs (later Justice, Freedom and Security) from 2003 to 2010 and then Director-General in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA) between 2010 and 2015. Latterly he has served as Director-General of the Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum.
He studied law at the University of Sussex and has an MA from the College of Europe in Bruges. He has been a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po, a visiting fellow of the University of Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies, a visiting professor at the College of Europe since 2009 and Emeritus Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) since 1989.
He is a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a member of the boards of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris and the Centre for European Reform in London. Sir Jonathan has also been named by the University of Sussex as Honorary Professor and Fellow of UKTPO within the Business school, as well as Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Jonathan was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2017 for services to UK relations with the European Union.
Join the Chair and our expert panellists for their views on the politicisation of antitrust and competition regulation.
Sir Jonathan Faull joined Brunswick after a distinguished career at the European Commission working at the highest level on a wide range of policies including competition, justice and home affairs, transport and financial services. As the Commission’s most senior British official his recent roles included Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, as well as Director-General of the Task Force for strategic issues related to the UK Referendum.
Sir Jonathan became Director for Competition Policy at the Directorate-General for Competition in 1995, Deputy Director-General in charge of State aid in 1999 and Spokesman and Director-General of Press and Communication in 1999. He was Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs (later Justice, Freedom and Security) from 2003 to 2010 and then Director-General in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA) between 2010 and 2015. Latterly he has served as Director-General of the Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum.
He studied law at the University of Sussex and has an MA from the College of Europe in Bruges. He has been a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po, a visiting fellow of the University of Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies, a visiting professor at the College of Europe since 2009 and Emeritus Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) since 1989.
He is a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a member of the boards of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris and the Centre for European Reform in London. Sir Jonathan has also been named by the University of Sussex as Honorary Professor and Fellow of UKTPO within the Business school, as well as Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Jonathan was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2017 for services to UK relations with the European Union.
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte is a Partner in the Antitrust and Competition group of Hogan Lovells.
Clients come to Salomé for her innovative and hands-on solutions to antitrust issues. She advises on all aspects of EU competition law, but has significant experience in cross-border mergers and strategic joint ventures, high-stakes investigations and complex vertical issues. She has successfully advised clients on phase I and phase II merger cases before the European Commission and coordinated multinational merger filings all over the world. She is sought by clients for her particular expertise in competition issues relating to the digital economy, including artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, platforms and data.
Salomé was recently re-elected as Vice-Chair of the Competition Policy Committee of AmCham EU. She frequently lectures on EU competition law at academic institutions, such as Harvard Law School, College de Europe, IE Law Schoole, ESADE, and VUB, as well as at industry fora. She also serves as Elected Director on the Board of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) in Cambridge (US) and is a former President of the Harvard Club of Belgium.
Salomé graduated summa cum laude in law and economics from the University of Deusto (Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura) and holds a master of laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School, where she was an associate fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. She obtained a PhD in law from the EUI in Florence and has been a Fulbright scholar.
She is admitted to practice in Belgium and Spain.
Thomas heads Freshfields’ global antitrust, competition and trade practice group – a role he combines with his dynamic and broad client practice.
In client mandates, Thomas immerses himself in the business of his clients in order to provide innovative, tailored solutions to global antitrust issues. In leading Freshfields’ antitrust practice, he works with colleagues across the firm to apply our energy, thought leadership and values to stay on top of their game.
He advises on EU and international antitrust law, covering transactional and conduct matters as well as related litigation. Clients turn to Thomas for complex EU and international mandates, especially those requiring strategic management of cross-border challenges and parallel proceedings before several authorities. He brings international experience and perspective across all areas of antitrust risk and compliance in a wide range of industries, including the fast-moving digital economy. The nature of his work also involves leading teams of Freshfields lawyers and local counsel around the world.
Tommaso Valletti has a magna cum laude degree in engineering from Turin and holds a MSc and a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. He is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, and also Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). He has previously taught at the London School of Economics, Telecom ParisTech/Ecole Polytechnique, and Turin.
Tommaso is currently the Head of the Department of Economics & Public Policy at Imperial College Business School. He is a Non-Executive Director to the board of the Financial Conduct Authority. He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) between September 2016 and August 2019.
Ms. Vandenborre has consistently been named as a leading practitioner in Who’s Who Legal guides in both competition and life sciences. In 2020, she was named Competition Lawyer of the Year at the Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards, which also recognized her work advising Aspen in relation to the European Commission’s Article 102 investigation of the company’s pricing practices as an Impact Case of the Year. In 2018 she was shortlisted for Transatlantic Disputes/Regulatory Lawyer of the Year at the Transatlantic Legal Awards, hosted by Legal Week and The American Lawyer. Ms. Vandenborre also was part of the Skadden team awarded M&A Deal of the Year at the IFLR1000 Europe 2020 Awards for its representation of Gilead Sciences, Inc. in its US$5.1 billion transaction with Galapagos NV. In 2016, she received the ILO Client Choice Award for the category of EU Competition and Antitrust, awarded by The International Law Office in recognition of individual partners who excel across the full spectrum of client service. She currently serves as nongovernmental adviser to the intergovernmental International Competition Network.
Sir Jonathan Faull joined Brunswick after a distinguished career at the European Commission working at the highest level on a wide range of policies including competition, justice and home affairs, transport and financial services. As the Commission’s most senior British official his recent roles included Director-General Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, as well as Director-General of the Task Force for strategic issues related to the UK Referendum.
Sir Jonathan became Director for Competition Policy at the Directorate-General for Competition in 1995, Deputy Director-General in charge of State aid in 1999 and Spokesman and Director-General of Press and Communication in 1999. He was Director-General of Justice and Home Affairs (later Justice, Freedom and Security) from 2003 to 2010 and then Director-General in charge of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA) between 2010 and 2015. Latterly he has served as Director-General of the Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum.
He studied law at the University of Sussex and has an MA from the College of Europe in Bruges. He has been a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po, a visiting fellow of the University of Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies, a visiting professor at the College of Europe since 2009 and Emeritus Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) since 1989.
He is a visiting Professor at King’s College, London and a member of the boards of the Jacques Delors Institute in Paris and the Centre for European Reform in London. Sir Jonathan has also been named by the University of Sussex as Honorary Professor and Fellow of UKTPO within the Business school, as well as Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.
Sir Jonathan was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2017 for services to UK relations with the European Union.
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