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Christian
Ahlborn, Linklaters LLP, studied law and
economics, and is qualified as a lawyer in both Germany
and England.The focus of his advice lies in the areas
of merger control, abuse of dominance and state aid.
He has considerable experience in network industries
(eg software and credit cards) and in the defence
and aviation sectors. |
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Pinar Akman, University
of East Anglia, is a Lecturer in Law at
the Norwich Law School. Her main research area is
EC competition law and economics and particularly
the prohibition of abuse of a dominant position
under Article 82 EC. She is particularly interested
in the interface between legal and economic concepts
underlying Article 82 EC, such as welfare and fairness.
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Philippe Chappatte, Slaughter
and May, was educated at Oxford University
and the Free University of Brussels and joined Slaughter
and May in 1980. He became a partner in 1989 and is
now Head of the Competition group. Philippe has been
responsible for a large number of transactions notified
to the European Commission under the EC Merger Regulation.
He has extensive experience of UK competition law,
including a number of Competition Commission investigations,
and also competition issues arising from the application
of Articles 81 and 82. He is the co-founder and co-President
of the European Competition Lawyers Forum.
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John Colahan, Latham and Watkins LLP, represents clients before the European Commission,
national authorities in Europe and internationally, as well as conducting litigation in the European courts and
numerous national courts. He has advised on a wide variety of international antitrust matters, including structuring
and implementation of international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, cartel enforcement, single firm conduct
and compliance counseling. Mr. Colahan was formerly the International Antitrust Counsel for The Coca-Cola Company
and he has also served as a legal adviser on European law to the European secretariat of the UK Cabinet Office and
has represented the UK in numerous cases.
He regularly lectures on a wide range of international antitrust and compliance issues. |
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Philip Collins, Office
of Fair Trading, became Chairman of the
Office of Fair Trading in 2005. He is a solicitor
who has practised in the UK and EU competition law
field for more than 30 years, initially in London
and latterly in Brussels. He was formerly the head
of Lovell's competition and EU law practice. Subsequently,
he was Senior Counsel at Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale & Dorr LLP. He was one of the founders of the
Competition Law Forum established at the British
Institute of International and Comparative Law and
a member of its Advisory Board from its foundation
in 2002 until 2005. He is also a member of the Editorial
Board of the European Competition Journal. |
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Liza Lovdahl Gormsen,
London School of Economics and Political Science
, teaches EU and UK competition law at
London School of Economics and Political Science.
She is also a visiting Fellow at Durham University
in the UK. Dr. Gormsen has a background in private
practice and with the UK competition regulator
the Office of Fair Trading. She holds a PhD in
Competition Law (King's College London) as well
as an LLM in European Law (King's College London).
Liza has published a variety of articles on European
competition law and is the author of the book
A Principled Approach to Abuse of Dominance (CUP,
forthcoming in 2009). |
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Sir Jeremy Lever
QC, Monckton Chambers, is one of the
leading and most respected EU and competition
lawyers at the Bar. He is a Fellow and Senior Dean of All Souls College,
Oxford; Consulting Editor of Butterworth's Competition
Law; one of the editors of The Comparative Law
Textbook on Tort Law (Metro Institute for Transnational
Legal Research, Maastricht); a member of the Council
of Management and the Executive Committee of the
British Institute of International and Comparative
Law. He was Chairman of Oftel's Advisory Body
on Fair Trading in Telecommunications until the
supersession of that Body in 2000; Consulting
Editor of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions of Bellamy
and Child on the Competition Law of the Common Market;
and one of the assistant editors of Chitty on
Contract. He has also written extensively on the
topic of State Aids. On a regular basis he is
being asked to intervene as an arbitrator. |
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Nicholas Levy, Cleary
Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP, focuses
on EC and UK competition law. He has extensive experience
in notifying mergers and joint ventures under the
EC Merger Regulation, as well as coordinating the
pan-European notification of international transactions
with various national competition authorities, particularly
the UK Office of Fair Trading. He has been involved
in a number of leading merger cases, including DuPont/ICI,
Electrolux/AEG, P&G/VP Schickedanz, Kimberly-Clark/Scott
Paper, Goodyear/Dunlop, Caterpillar/Perkins, Coca-Cola
Enterprises/ABGB, Blokker/Toys "R" Us, Alcoa/Reynolds,
General Electric/Honeywell, Sony/BMG, Inco/Falconbridge,
Euronext/LSE, BHP/Billiton, and Ryanair/Aer Lingus
II. He has also been involved in a number of important
proceedings before the Community Courts, including
for IMS HEALTH, in its successful appeal to the
Court of First Instance suspending a Commission
decision imposing interim measures, for BASF in
its appeal to the Court of First Instance of a Commission
decision imposing record fines for alleged participation
in the vitamins cartel, and for Sony and SONY BMG
in their successful appeal to the Court of Justice
of the Court of First Instance's judgment annulling
the Commission's decision approving the formation
of SONY BMG. |
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Frank Maier-Rigaud,
DG Competition, European Commission, is a Senior Economist in the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. He has worked many years in the Policy Directorate in merger and antitrust case support and has also been involved in policy projects such as Article 82, antitrust remedies, private enforcement and the development of the sector inquiry tool. He currently works in the Energy and Environment Directorate. In addition to his work at the European Commission, he remains affiliated with the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute in Bonn, Germany where he applies experimental and game theoretic tools to antitrust issues. He has represented the Commission in numerous conferences and international seminars and has written and lectured on competition policy, industrial organization, game theory and public economics. In the past he held academic positions at Indiana University Bloomington and the University of California, Berkeley. Among others he is a member of the American Economic Association and the Verein für Socialpolitik. Among others he is a member of the American Economic Association and the Verein für Socialpolitik. He has received various research grants and fellowships. Frank has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bonn (under Nobel Laureate R. Selten), a Master degree in Economics and a Master degree in Political Science from Indiana University Bloomington, and a BA in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Freiburg.
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Damien Neven, DG Competition,
European Commission, is Chief Competition
Economist at the Competition Directorate of the
European Commission and Professor at the Graduate
Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He
has obtained a Doctorate in Economics from Nuffield
College (Oxford) and has previously taught at INSEAD,
the University of Brussels, the College of Europe
and the University of Lausanne.His work has focused
on the economics of industry. He has published numerous
articles and books in this area. His research focuses
on competition economics and enforcement. |
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Alberto Pera, Gianni,
Origoni, Grippo and Partners, is former
Secretary General of the Italian Antitrust Authority
and a recognized expert in competition and antitrust
practice, with specific expertise in national and
Community Law. He is also an expert in regulation
of public utilities and privatization, and in these
fields he has been a consultant to Italian ministries
and international institutions. He heads the Antitrust
Department at Gianni, Origoni, Grippo and Partners
and assists clients assessing the impact of regulation
on their business initiatives. |
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Thomas Sharpe QC,
One Essex Court, is a specialist in all
aspects of competition law, utility regulation,
commercial judicial review and European law litigation.
A graduate of Trinity Hall, Cambridge he is qualified
in both Economics and Law and is retained particularly
where complex issues of law and economics are
involved. He brings considerable experience from
having held various academic appointments in the
UK and US (visiting professor in anti-trust, University
of California), and as a Fellow, Nuffield College,
Oxford until starting to practise in 1987. He
is a frequent lecturer in the IEA/LBS regulation
annual lecture series, to the Law Society European
Group, and to the British Institute of International
and Comparative Law. He is a past contributor
to Halsbury's Laws (European Law) and the LQR,
CMLR, Eur L Rev and other legal journals and to
symposia and published lectures in regulation.
He is on the advisory or editorial boards of the
European Competition Journal, Concurrences-Revue
des droits de la concurrence, and the Centre for
Competition Policy, UEA. |
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Bo Vesterdorf,
Plesner and Herbert Smith LLP, is the
former president of the European Court of First
Instance (CFI) in Luxembourg. He was a judge at
the CFI from its foundation in 1989, becoming
president in 1998, until his retirement in 2007.
He works with Herbert Smith's EU and competition
practice around the world, based primarily in
Brussels. |
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Gregory Werden, US
Department of Justice (Antitrust Division),
is Senior Economic Counsel in the Antitrust Division
of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he has
worked since 1977. He earned several degrees including
a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
He has been involved in a wide array of policy matters
at the Antitrust Division. He was a principal author
of the 1982 and 1984 Merger Guidelines, as well
as four other sets of enforcement guidelines. He
assisted in the preparation of over forty amicus
briefs filed with the Supreme Court and the courts
of appeals, and worked on all appeals of the Department
of Justice civil antitrust cases since 1985. He
has published extensively in both economic journals
and law reviews on antitrust policy and related
topics.
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Wouter P.J. Wils, Legal
Service, European Commission , was educated
both as an economist and as a lawyer at Louvain,
Utrecht and Harvard. He was a référendaire for Advocate-General
Van Gerven at the EC Court of Justice. Since 1994,
he has been a member of the European Commission's
Legal Service, where he has been working mainly
in the fields of competition, intellectual property
and consumer protection. He has represented the
European Commission in more than 300 cases before
the EC Court of Justice and Court of First Instance
and the EFTA Court. He has lectured at the universities
of Tours and Utrecht, and in 2004 became a Visiting
Professor at King's College London. His research
interests include the law and economics of antitrust
enforcement; and the objectives and general philosophy
of competition law. |
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| Philip Marsden, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
, is a competition lawyer with a particular interest in abuse of dominance, consumer welfare, and international competition issues. He is Non-executive Director on the Board of the UK Office of Fair Trading; Editor of the European Competition Journal; and a Founding Director of World Trade Institute Advisors. |
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Simon Bishop, RBB Economics,
has worked in economic consultancy since 1991. He
has advised on numerous major cases before the EC
Commission and national competition authorities.
Clients for whom Simon has acted as lead economist
include GE, British Airways, FA Premier League,
Bertelsmann, Canal+ and UEFA. He has particular
expertise in the application of quantitative techniques
both in the context of assessing the likely competitive
effects of mergers and also in non-merger settings.
Simon has published widely including reports and
articles on market definition, collective dominance
in merger control, bidding markets, loyalty rebates
and vertical restraints. He is the co-author of
The Economics of EC Competition Law (2nd edition,
Sweet & Maxwell, 2002), the leading textbook on
the application of economics to European competition
law, and co-editor of the European Competition Journal.
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Vincent Brophy, Jones Day
, practises EU and U.K. antitrust/competition
law, including merger reviews and investigations
of joint ventures, agreements, and practices, involving
the European Commission and the competition authorities
of the European Member States (including the U.K.
Office of Fair Trading). His experience includes
client representations in European and U.K. antitrust
hearings and court proceedings. He also advises
on EU business regulation generally, particularly
financial services. Vincent has advised on some
of the biggest mergers ever to go before the European
Commission, including BHP/Billiton and Procter &
Gamble/Gillette. Other examples of the merger cases
in which he has been involved include: Commercial
Union/ASEVAL, KKR/WENDEL/Legrand, State Street Corporation/Deutsche
Bank, Church & Dwight Co./SpinBrush (Procter & Gamble),
and MasterCard/Europay. Among his antitrust cases
before the EU are an appeal to the European Court
of First Instance against the European Commission
on behalf of MasterCard, as well as defending arrangements
for the FIFA World Cup 2006 and the UEFA 2008 European
Championship.
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Mark Clough QC, Addleshaw Goddard
, specialises in UK competition and merger control law and related regulation as well as EC law including competition, merger control, state aid, public procurement and trade law (including WTO law and EC anti-dumping, countervailing duties, safeguards and customs law), covering financial services, energy, healthcare, transport, electronic communications and media, food and drink industry sectors. A solicitor advocate, he has practised before the OFT, Competition Commission, regulatory bodies and UK courts, including the CAT, as well as the European Commission in Brussels and the European Courts in Luxembourg for over twenty years. He has experience of EC law in national courts, including references to the European Court. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1999. Leading cases before the European Court include the CMBT, cement cartel, TAA, FEFC and TACA , Ferries Golfo, BP/EON and Shell/DEA (expedited merger appeal, settled) and before the UK courts appearing for Sony in the Court of Appeal in a dispute with Commissioners of Revenue and Customs concerning the PlayStation R2, the Vitamin cartel damages claims (first competition damages cases before the High court (direct purchasers) and the CAT (indirect purchasers) as well as advising on a number of Competition Act appeals to the CAT.
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