Antitrust Review

In the latest instalment of our Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Cani Fernández, President of the Spanish Competition Authority. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the role of competition law, the Draghi Report, merger control, cartel enforcement, sustainability, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of our Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Aviv Nevo, Chief Economist at the Department of Justice under President Obama and Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission under President Biden.They discuss antitrust enforcement under President Biden, why economics matters, the consumer welfare standard, the 2023 Merger Guidelines, the risks of politicization, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Ariel Ezrachi, Professor of Competition Law at Oxford University. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the role of competition law, the risks of politicization, digital regulation, algorithmic collusion, dark patterns, AI, and much more.

In the latest instalment of our Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Marcus Bokkerink, Chair of the U.K. Competition & Markets Authority until his resignation earlier this year. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the CMA's role, objectives, and achievements, theGovernment's growth agenda, the role of politics in antitrust enforcement, merger control, digital regulation, and much more.

In this instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy speaks with Cristina Caffarra, one of the leading competition economists in Europe and among the most engaged commentators on policy, regulation, and enforcement in the world. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the role of competition enforcement, industrial policy, the Biden Administration's legacy, the Draghi Report, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel of lawyers from Cleary's U.S., Brussels and London offices, together with Sir Jonathan Faull, Peter Guilford, John Fingleton, and Stuart Hudson, to discuss President Trump's appointments to the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice and the likely direction of U.S. enforcement, the early days of Teresa Ribera's tenure as Competition Commissioner, and the implications of the Labour Government's appointment of a new chair of the U.K. Competition & Markets Authority.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy speaks with Lucia Bonova, one of the European Commission's Digital Markets Act leadership team. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including Commissioner Vestager's legacy, implications of the Draghi Report, what to expect under incoming Commissioner Ribera, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Eleanor Fox, one of the leading jurists and commentators on antitrust policy, law, and enforcement over the past 50 years. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including U.S. enforcement under President Biden, what to expect under Present Trump, the fate of the progressive agenda, Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by colleagues from the firm's Brussels office, as well as two veterans of the Brussels scene, Sir Jonathan Faull, who chairs Brunswick's European Public Affairs Group, and Peter Guilford, who runs Shearwater, a leading EU public affairs firm. Together, they discuss the legacy of Commissioner Vestager and the in-coming Competition Commissioner, Teresa Ribera, for antitrust enforcement, merger control, digital regulation, and foreign subsidies regulation.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by two veteran observers of U.S. antitrust enforcement – Dave Gelfand, who served as Assistant Attorney-General for Antitrust Litigation at the Department of Justice during President Obama's second term, and Bruce Hoffman, who served as Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission during President Trump's first term. Together, they discuss the legacy of the Biden Presidency and assess what to expect under President Trump in antitrust enforcement, merger control, and digital regulation.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Brian McHugh, Chair of the Irish Competition & Consumer Protection Commission. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the agency's historic record and new enforcement powers, merger control and the implications of Illumina/GRAIL, consumer protection, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel featuring Jackie Holland, Cleary partner and former Senior Director of the UK Office of Fair Trading; Ricardo Zimbrón, former Director of Mergers at the Competition & Markets Authority and currently a partner at Cleary; Alexander Baker, CEO, Fingleton; and John Gray, Partner, FGS Global, to discuss the implications of the new Labour Government for competition enforcement and practice in the UK. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the new government's growth agenda, the role of politics in antitrust enforcement, merger control, consumer protection, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by the team of lawyers who represented Illumina in its landmark appeal to the European Court of Justice, which last week overturned the Commission's assertion of jurisdiction under the EU Merger Regulation over below-threshold mergers. Mario Siragusa, Enrique González-Díaz, Cesare Rizza, and Anita Magraner Oliver explain how they litigated the case, why the Court of Justice sided with Illumina, and what implications the Court's judgment will have for EU merger control.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Martijn Snoep, Chair of the Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the role of sustainability in antitrust enforcement, merger control, consumer protection, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Barry Hawk, one of antitrust law's leading jurists and commentators. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, the evolution of EU competition law, the proliferation of antitrust agencies, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by George Cary, one of the leading U.S. antitrust lawyers of his generation and a former Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the continued relevance of the consumer welfare standard, U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, hipster economics, merger control, Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Sir John Vickers, Warden of Oxford University's All Souls College and a former head of the Office of Fair Trading, the predecessor to the Competition & Markets Authority. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the relevance of industrial economics, the evolution of UK competition law, the CMA's enforcement priorities post-Brexit, consumer protection, merger control, judicial review, Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Damien Gerard, Prosecutor General of the Belgian Competition Authority. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the agency's enforcement priorities, enhanced capabilities, and new powers, merger control, sustainability, Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Bill Kovacic, a legend in the world of antitrust. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including Bill's 50-year career, the consumer welfare standard, the progressive leadership of the U.S. antitrust agencies, regulation of Big Tech, the global antitrust landscape, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Maria Jaspers, who heads the EC's Cartels Directorate. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the EC's enforcement practice and leniency program, dawn raids in a digital world, the settlement procedure, follow-on damages actions, global enforcement, and much more.

In the latest instalment of the Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Saverio Valentino, Board member of the Italian Antitrust Authority.The conversation covers Saverio's first year in the role, the agency's current priorities, merger control and FDI regulation, cartel enforcement, rights of defence, judicial review, and much more.

In the latest instalment of the Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive of the Competition & Markets Authority. Their conversation covers a range of topics, including her first year in the role, merger control, Microsoft/Activision, cartel enforcement, judicial review, international coordination, sustainability, and her plans for the future.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews members of Cleary Gottlieb's award-winning antitrust practice about the principal developments in 2023 and their predictions for antitrust enforcement in 2024. Partners from across the world share their thoughts about the past year and what's in store for the next 12 months.

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair of the ACCC, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.Their conversation covers Gina's first 18 months as Chair of the ACCC, the proposed reforms of Australian merger control, the ACCC's enforcement practice, the role of sustainability considerations, the regulation of Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of the Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Bruce Hoffman, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition between August 2017 and December 2019, and Dave Gelfand, who served from 2013 through 2016 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Their conversation focuses on U.S. merger control, including Microsoft/Activision, the Baker Hughes framework, recent enforcement practice of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, and changes to the Merger Guidelines and HSR form.

In the latest episode of Cleary's Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Alberto Bacchiega, Director of the Commission's Digital Platforms Directorate, which is charged with implementing the EU's landmark Digital Markets Act. Their conversation covers the Commission's implementation of the Act, its designation of gatekeepers and core platform services that will subject to its obligations, the parallel application of national regulatory regimes and Article 102, and how the Commission intends judging whether the Act has been successful.

In the latest instalment of Cleary's Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Dr. Jorge Padilla, one of Europe's leading antitrust economists. Their conversation covers Jorge's 30-year career, the evolution in the application of economics and the use of economists in European merger control, the scope for advancing economic evidence in antitrust cases, the role that economics can play in enabling agencies to take account of sustainability objectives, and the impending regulation of digital platforms.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Sir Jonathan Faull.Their conversation covers Sir Jonathan's 30-year career at the European Commission, including the early days of the EU Merger Regulation, the legacy of DG COMP's Modernization Program, which he helped to design in the early 2000's, the negotiations that preceded the Brexit vote, where he played a critical role in representing the European Union, the future of the European Union following Brexit, and his new career in public affairs.

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by legendary EU antitrust lawyer and jurist Mario Siragusa. Their conversation looks back at Mario's 50-year career as one of the leading practitioners of his generation, surveys changes in EU competition law and legal practice that have occurred over the period, discusses the current enforcement environment, and provides advice to young lawyers on how best to advocate before competition agencies and courts.

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy, co-head of Cleary Gottlieb's award-winning antitrust practice, is joined by Professor Frédéric Jenny, the legendary jurist and Chair of the OECD Competition Law and Policy Committee. Among other things, they discuss the current enforcement environment, the “weaponization” of antitrust, divergence, harmonization, and cooperation between agencies, and the spectre of digital regulation.

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Cleary Gottlieb experts Jackie Holland, Henry Mostyn and Conor Opdebeeck-Wilson to discuss the UK's proposal for a new regime regulating the world's leading digital platforms. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the scope of the new law; its interaction with existing UK antitrust enforcement powers and the parallel EU regime, the Digital Markets Act; and the implications of the proposed law for UK merger control and consumer protection.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Henri Piffaut, Vice-President of the French Competition Authority, to discuss the agency's enforcement practice, the role of politics in merger control, differences between the French Competition Authority and DG COMP, where Henri worked for many years, and the outlook for the coming year.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Sir Philip Lowe, former Director-General of DG COMP. The conversation covers an array of topics spanning Philip's 50-year career, including the reforms he introduced as Director-General to merger control, antitrust enforcement, Article 102 and private damages actions, the impact of Brexit on UK competition law enforcement, and the EC's energy policy.

In episode thirteen of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Guillaume Loriot, who, following a 20-year career at DG COMP, is now the EC's Deputy Director-General for Mergers.Their conversation covers a broad range of topics, including the EC's merger enforcement practice and remedies policy, the jurisdictional ambit of the EU Merger Regulation, the EU's new foreign subsidies regime and Digital Markets Act, and cooperation between the EC and other antitrust agencies.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews author, scholar and expert in international antitrust and trade law Professor Anu Bradford.The conversation covers a range of topics raised by Anu in The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World and her upcoming book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, which will be released later this year.Nick and Anu discuss how the EU has shaped the regulatory agenda around the work, whether the EU is becoming more protectionist, and whether the U.S. will embrace the EU's market-driven regulatory model for Big Tech.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews members of Cleary Gottlieb's award-winning antitrust practice about the principal legal developments in 2022 and their predictions for the enforcement of antitrust law in 2023. Partners from across the world share their thoughts about the past year and what's in store for the next 12 months.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including merger control, cartel enforcement, legislative change in Germany, data and Big Tech, sustainability, and much more.

In the third episode of a three-part series on U.S. antitrust enforcement, host Nick Levy interviews Cleary Gottlieb colleagues Bruce Hoffman and Leah Brannon about the U.S. enforcement environment for Big Tech, the agencies' application of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and the prospects for legislative change.

In the second episode of a three-part series on U.S. antitrust enforcement, host Nick Levy interviews Cleary Gottlieb colleagues Dave Gelfand and Heather Nyongo'o about U.S. antitrust and merger litigation, the prospects for legislative change in the U.S., and their practical experiences of handling major litigation at the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and in private practice.This podcast was created as a service to clients and friends of Cleary Gottlieb to report on topics and recent developments that may be of interest. The information in it is therefore general, and should not be considered or relied on as legal advice.

In the first episode of a three-part series on U.S. antitrust enforcement, host Nick Levy interviews Cleary Gottlieb colleagues George Cary and Elaine Ewing about U.S. merger control under President Biden. Their discussion examines the current enforcement environment, the prospects for legislative reform, and much more.This podcast was created as a service to clients and friends of Cleary Gottlieb to report on topics and recent developments that may be of interest. The information in it is therefore general, and should not be considered or relied on as legal advice.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, a panel of Cleary Gottlieb experts unpack the EU's landmark Digital Markets Act, explaining its scope and implications for the world's leading digital platforms. Nick Levy, host of the podcast and partner at Cleary Gottlieb, is joined by three of Europe's leading antitrust lawyers to discuss the Act following its adoption in October 2022.Attorney Advertising. This podcast was created as a service to clients and friends of Cleary Gottlieb to report on topics and recent developments that may be of interest. The information in it is therefore general, and should not be considered or relied on as legal advice.

In this episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Olivier Guersent, Director-General of the EC's Directorate-General for Competition. Over a 30-year career at the EC, Olivier has been at the centre of antitrust enforcement and policy. A former Director of Mergers and architect of the EC's Leniency Program, he has served in the private offices of Commissioners Karel Van Miert, Michel Barnier and Neelie Kroes, and, before taking his current role, was Director-General of the EC's Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Nick and Olivier discuss a wide array of issues, including the state of the EU, merger and cartel enforcement, and Big Tech.

In the fourth episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Professor Eleanor M. Fox, who for 40 years has been one of the world's most distinguished academic commentators on antitrust law and has played an instrumental role in bringing competition law to emerging markets. Nick and Eleanor discuss U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, the EU's new regulatory regime for Big Tech, strengths and weaknesses in current enforcement policy, how to inspire students, and much more.

In the third episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews John Fingleton CBE, former head of the Office of Fair Trading (now the CMA) and the Irish Competition Authority. Among other things, Nick and John discuss the impact of Brexit on UK antitrust enforcement, the CMA's emergence as one of the world's most interventionalist competition agencies, and UK regulation of Big Tech.

In the second episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, a panel of Cleary Gottlieb partners discuss the achievements to date of European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager's second term, including the landmark Digital Markets Act.Nick Levy, host of the podcast and partner at Cleary Gottlieb, is joined by three of Europe's leading antitrust lawyers assessing the second term of European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.Attorney Advertising. This podcast was created as a service to clients and friends of Cleary Gottlieb to report on topics and recent developments that may be of interest. The information in it is therefore general, and should not be considered or relied on as legal advice.

In the first episode of Cleary Gottlieb's Antitrust Review podcast, we interview Andrea Coscelli CBE, outgoing chief executive of the UK Competition & Markets Authority.Nick Levy, host of the podcast and partner at Cleary Gottlieb, discusses Brexit, Big Tech, merger control, cartel enforcement, and much more with Andrea, who has been a transformational head at a significant time in the CMA's evolution. Attorney Advertising. This podcast was created as a service to clients and friends of Cleary Gottlieb to report on topics and recent developments that may be of interest. The information in it is therefore general, and should not be considered or relied on as legal advice.