Antitrust Review

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.