On 20 January, Compass Lexecon partnered with Clifford Chance and Concurrences to host the first Tech Antitrust Conference in Palo Alto, California. Executive Vice Presidents John Davies and Nathan Wilson moderated roundtables between enforcers and in-house counsel in the digital and tech sector, and Senior Managing Director Jon Orszag gave a welcome speech . Access … Continued
Compass Lexecon invites paper submissions by those wishing to attend the second edition of the Compass Lexecon Economics Conference on Friday, 22 September 2023 at Wadham College in Oxford, UK. Conference details The subject area covered by the conference is competition economics and industrial organisation, and the scope for novel techniques and analysis in this … Continued
In January, Senior Vice President, Anton Garcia, spoke at the Concurrences ‘Future of Sport Governance in Europe’ hybrid conference in Brussels. Anton joined a panel focussing on the topic of levelling the playing field for all, within the context of how to organise a continental system of sport competitions. Read a summary of Anton’s discussion … Continued
Wednesday, 8 February, 08:30 – 14:30 GMT One Moorgate Place, Chartered Accountants’ Hall, 1 Moorgate Place, London EC2R 6EA Compass Lexecon and Geradin Partners are co-hosting an upcoming event on Media Competition and Regulation in the Digital Age at One Moorgate Place on Wednesday, 8 February. Digitalisation is creating increasingly complex regulatory and competition policy … Continued
On 23 September 2022, Compass Lexecon hosted its first Economics Conference at the Saïd Business School in Oxford, UK with the theme “Recent developments in the economics of mergers, and the scope for novel techniques and analysis”. The conference aimed to provide a forum in which economists at government authorities, academic economists, and industry practitioners … Continued
Rameet Sangha and Andy Parkinson highlight developments in merger assessment across different sectors and jurisdictions, as well as issues raised by conglomerate mergers in a summary from the May 2022 Concurrences International Mergers conference. Panel 1 – Latest developments in mergers assessment: what consequences on substance and procedure? Rameet Sangha: As to whether merger control … Continued
Carla Chavich, Andres Barrera, and Jack Ghaleb will participate in the second edition of the global Cross-Examination Moot. They assisted in the case preparation and will be role-playing as experts at the competition in November. The Cross-Examination Moot is a GAR award-winning competition for university students that focuses exclusively on cross-examination techniques in the international … Continued
On 21 April, economists Soledad Pereiras and Justin Coombs spoke at the Concurrences Innovation Economics conference for antitrust lawyers at King’s College London. Soledad focused on market definition in digital markets, while Justin discussed potential exclusionary behaviour by companies and their effects on the market and consumers. Panel 1 – Market definition in innovation markets: … Continued
On 31 May 2022, Skadden, Compass Lexecon and Concurrences convened for a fireside chat to discuss developments in merger control and digital markets, followed by a panel discussion on a range of issues, including the increasingly blurred lines of EU jurisdiction, the standard of proof, the role of economic analysis, the changing approach to merger … Continued
Compass Lexecon invites paper submissions by those wishing to attend the Compass Lexecon Economics Conference to take place on Friday, 23 September 2022 at the Saïd Business School in Oxford, UK. Conference details The topic for the Compass Lexecon Economics Conference is “Recent developments in the economics of mergers, and the scope for novel techniques … Continued