Twenty Years in Antitrust and Lessons for a New Administration
The last twenty years has seen a massive proliferation of competition agencies around the globe, increasing to nearly than 130 to date. Twenty years later, the globalization of antitrust has become even more pronounced. On the 20th Anniversary of the George Mason Antitrust Symposium, global leaders in the field of antitrust discussed changes over the last twenty years and lessons for the new administration.
Opening Keynote and A Conversation with former FTC Commissioner Joshua D. Wright and Tad Lipsky
Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Acting Chairman, Federal Trade Commission
Joshua D. Wright, University Professor and Executive Director, Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Abbott B. Lipsky, Jr., Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
__________________________________________________________
Panel One: Chinese Merger Law
Panelists:
Jing He, Senior Consultant, AnJie Law Firm
Randolph W. Tritell, Director, Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission
Joanna Tsai, Vice President, Charles River Associates
Mark D. Whitener, Senior Counsel, Competition Law & Policy, General Electric Company
Moderator:
H. Stephen Harris, Jr., Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP
__________________________________________________________
Panel Two: From Staples to Staples – 20 Years of Merger Enforcement in the United States
Panelists:
Orley C. Ashenfelter, Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics, Princeton University
George S. Cary, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Deborah L. Feinstein, Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
Matthew J. Reilly, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Chetan Sanghvi, Managing Director, NERA Economic Consultants
Moderator:
Paul T. Denis, Partner, Dechert LLP
__________________________________________________________
Luncheon Keynote
Introduction: The Globalization of Competition Law in the Past 20 Years and the Advent of Brazilian Competition Law
Terry Calvani, Of Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Keynote Speaker: Brazilian Perspective on Mergers and Unilateral Conduct
Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo, Commissioner, Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)
__________________________________________________________
Panel Three: Legal Issues Regarding Pension Reform
Panelists:
Hiram Andrews, Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
James I. Harlan, Director of Standards and Competition Policy, InterDigital
Greg A. Sivinski, Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft
Koren W. Wong-Ervin, Director, Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Moderator:
Anne Layne-Farrar, Vice President, Charles River Associates
__________________________________________________________
Panel Four: Globalization of Cartel Enforcement
Panelists:
Vinicius Marques de Carvalho, Yale World Fellow, Yale University and Former President, Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)
Minji Kim, Deputy Director, Korea Fair Trade Commission
Bruce C. McCulloch, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Gary R. Spratling, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
John M. Taladay, Partner, Baker Botts LLP
Moderator:
The Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Professor of Law, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School