Antitrust Review

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Joel Bamford, Executive Director for Mergers at the Competition & Markets Authority.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the agency’s response to the UK Government’s strategic steer, the CMA’s merger review process, reforms to the CMA’s remedies policy, international cooperation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Hiroo Iwanari, Secretary-General of the Japanese Fair Trade Commission.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the objectives of Japanese antitrust enforcement, the role of industrial policy, merger control, cartel enforcement, sustainability, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by John Fingleton, Andrea Coscelli and Marcus Bokkerink, three former heads of the UK competition agency. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the future of UK antitrust enforcement, merger control, political independence, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just, and Competitive Transition.  Their conversation, held in front of a live audience in New York at the Fordham Corporate Law Institute’s 52nd Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy, covers an array of topics, including the objectives of antitrust, sustainability, EU merger control, the Draghi Report, digital regulation, international cooperation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Guillaume Loriot, the EC’s Head of Mergers. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including EU merger control following Illumina/GRAIL, the consumer welfare standard, the Draghi Report, the role of innovation, the EC’s Merger Guidelines, international cooperation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a group of economists and lawyers to discuss one of the most interesting questions in contemporary EU merger control – the role of innovation and the circumstances in which an otherwise anti-competitive merger should be approved because of its projected positive effect on investment and innovation. Jorge Padilla and Neil Dryden of Compass Lexecon, Ethel Fonseca and Katie Curry of RBB, and Chris Cook of Cleary Gottlieb provide a masterclass in explaining the relevant policy, economic, and legal issues.

In this instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Olivier Guersent, Director General of DG COMP. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the EU’s future, the role of antitrust enforcement, the Draghi Report, merger control, digital regulation, international cooperation, and much more.

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.