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.