Day One - 16 November 2009

Chairman

Peter Alexiadis
Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

09:00

Registration and coffee

09:20

Chairman's opening remarks

09:30

Competition Law Snapshot - A Year in Review

• The legacy of the Kroes' era
• Ever larger fines: Intel and Car glass
• New directions for vertical restraints policy
• More consultations and changes to come: Regulation 1/2003, horizontal agreements, ECMR
• The pharmaceutical sector inquiry findings: shocking?
• Merger control in a recession
• Challenges for the new DG Comp regime

• Tony Reeves
  Partner, Clifford Chance LLP

10:40

Coffee

11:00

Latest Developments in Cartel Enforcement

• Review of recent cases
• Level of fines
• Direct settlements - first assessment on how the process is working

Olivier Guersent
Director, DG Competition, European Commission
• Gerwin van Gerven
  Partner, Linklaters LLP
• Gary R. Spratling
  Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Comment from:

• Jürgen Schwarze
  Director Institute of Public Law, Department of European and Public International Law
• Wouter Wils
  Legal Service, European Commission and Professor King's College London

12:30

Lunch

13:45

Information Exchange - Challenges for Antitrust in a Recession

• Impact on trade associations
• Managing production shutdowns
• Tolling arrangements
• Extra compliance
• The recent T-Mobile case - whether a concerted practice (exchanging information at a single meeting) has an anti-competitive object.

• Robbert Snelders
  Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

14:20

Vertical Agreements - The Revised Regulation and Guidelines

Review of the main changes - resale price maintenance, selective distribution, Internet selling and distribution options of dominant firms

• Luc Peeperkorn
  Senior Administrator, DG Competition, European Commission

Panel discussion and comment::

• Stephen Kinsella OBE
  Partner, Sidley Austin LLP
• Nikos Vettas
  Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, CEPR and Economic Advisory Group in Competition Policy
• Melanie Thill-Tayara
  Partner, Norton Rose

15:30

Tea

15:50

Recent Developments in Merger Control - Policy Developments and Emerging Trends in an Economic Downturn

Moderator: Philippe Chappatte
Partner, Slaughter and May

• Efficiencies in horizontal and non-horizontal mergers
• What have we learned from the current crisis?
• The failing firm defence - OFT and Commission
• Remedies
• The Commission's Review of the Merger Regulation and how it is working
• The ICN Recommended Practice for Mergers
• Recent economic developments in EC merger assessment
• Developments in the US

• Guillaume Loriot
  Head of Unit, Antitrust and Merger Case Support, DG Competition, European Commission
• Simon Priddis
  Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
• Matthias Pflanz
  Vice President, Charles River Associates
• James W. Lowe
  Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

18:00

Close of Day One

18:00

Drinks reception

Day Two - 17 November 2009

Chairman

Lars-Hendrik Röller
President of ESMT

08:30

Coffee

09:00

Chairman's welcome and opening remarks

09:15

Keynote Address

Reflections on the past seven years
"Competition Policy Challenges in Europe"

• Philip Lowe
  Director General DG Competition, European Commission

09:45

Keynote Address

The first months of a new administration - priorities for enforcement, monopolisation and Article 2

• J. Thomas Rosch
  Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

10:30

Coffee

10:50

Panel Session - Question Time

A roundtable discussion with senior competition representatives

Moderator: Lars-Hendrik Röller
President of ESMT
• J. Thomas Rosch
  Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
• Philip Lowe
  Director General, DG Competition, European Commission
• Bruno Lasserre
  President, Autorité de la Concurrence
• Christian Ewald
  Chief Economist, Bundeskartellamt
• Philip Collins
  Chairman, Office of Fair Trading
• Frédéric Jenny
  Director for International Relations ESSEC, Judge Supreme Court of France

12:45

Lunch

14:00

Article 82 - Competition Issues in the High Tech Sector

Moderator: Thomas Vinje Partner, Clifford Chance LLP

Application of Article 82 in innovative and high-tech markets

• Review recent cases: Intel, Microsoft, Rambus
• The online commerce roundtable

• Nick Banasevic
  Deputy Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission
• James S. Venit
  Partner, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
• Lars Kjølbye
  Partner, Howrey, Brussels
• Jorge Padilla
  Managing Director, LECG
• Petri Kuoppamäki
  Vice President Corporate Legal, Nokia Corporation

15:00

The Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry

The Commission's final report - findings and conclusions

• Philipp Gasparon
  Deputy Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission
• Stephen Kon
  Partner, S J Berwin LLP
• David H. Rosenberg
  Industry Affairs, Corporate IP, GlaxoSmithKline t.b.c.

16:00

Tea

16:15

Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules

• Passing on; opt-in and opt-out; disclosure and costs
• Quantification of damages

• Daniele Calisti
  Private Enforcement Unit, DG Competition Comment and panel discussion
• Robert O'Donoghue
  Brick Court Chambers
• Gunnar Niels
  Director, Oxera
• Tim Reher
  Partner, CMS Hasche Sigle

17:15

Close of Conference