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CompLaw: Merger Control
September 2025
Brussels, Belgium
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CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 09:00 - 09:30
Registration & Networking
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 09:30 - 09:40
Chair’s Welcome and Introduction
  • Strati Sakellariou-Witt - Partner, White & Case LLP
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 09:40 - 10:20
A View from the Commission
  • Guillaume Loriot - Deputy Director General, Mergers, DG Comp, European Commission
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CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 10:20 - 11:05
Article 22 and Illumina/Grail Revisited
  • Illumina/ Grail judgment
  • How has the Commission reacted to it?
  • Will the Commission need a new way to catch these types of cases?
  • How should notifications be approached?
  • Implications for NCAs approaches to below threshold mergers
  • Aleksander Tombinski - Counsel, Clifford Chance
  • Nicholas Khan KC - Legal Services, European Commission
  • Angélique de Brousse - Head of Competition Law and Policy Group EMEA, Johnson & Johnson
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 11:05 - 11:25
Morning Networking Break
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 11:25 - 12:10
Merger Control Outside of Merger Control
  • Practical implications of TowerCast
  • Extension of Towercast - practical implications of the post-closing review of non-reportable mergers in the French meat-cutting sector - analysis of non-reportable mergers under Article 101 TFEU
  • Interplay between Article 22 EUMR and Article 102/Article 101 TFEU– Belgium (Edp net acquisition), France (meat cutting mergers)
  • Will ex-post reviews of below-threshold mergers under Article 102/Article 101 be used more widely?
  • Ability of national regulators to call in below-threshold deals e.g. Germany (section 32f (2) of the German Competition Act), Italy, Ireland, calls for new powers in the Netherlands etc
  • AI partnerships and merger control
  • Acquihires
  • Dealing with the new level of uncertainty introduced by these developments
  • Tilman Kuhn - Partner, White & Case LLP
  • Damien Gerard - Prosecutor General, Belgian Competition Authority
  • David Dubois - Deputy Head of Merger Control Unit, Autorite de la concurrence
  • Bianca Cammino - Coordinator of Investigative Activities, AGCM
  • Alan Scarlett - Deputy Director, Competition Enforcement & Mergers Division, Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
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CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 12:10 - 13:00
Digital Markets & Ecosystem Theories of Harm
  • DMA’s interplay with merger control
  • How does Article 22 interact with DMA in relation to nascent acquisition?
  • AI partnerships and merger control
  • CMA’s approach to the tech sector after Microsoft/ Activision
  • Ecosystem theory of harm in Booking / Etraveli
  • Amazon/iRobot
  • Is the Commission departing from non-horizontal merger guidelines?
  • Scepticism for non-structural remedies
  • Davina Garrod - Partner, Akin
  • Marc Zedler - Deputy Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission
  • Pedro Hinojo - Head of Information Society Services, Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC)
  • Imogen Ditchfield - Director, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
  • Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli - Senior Director, Europe, Chamber of Progress
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 13:00 - 14:00
Networking Lunch Break
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CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 14:00 - 14:40
Foreign Subsidies Regulation: A Year On
  • How is the Commission approaching FSR? What cases are being assessed? What legal standard is being applied?
  • How are corporates approaching FSR notifications?
  • Catherine Gordley - Counsel, Van Bael & Bellis
  • Marco Lo Bue - Senior Legal Counsel Competition Law, Holcim
  • Martin Farley - Legal Services, European Commission
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 14:40 - 15:10
Learnings from M&A FSR filings
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 15:10 - 15:50
Innovation and Non-Price Competition
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 15:50 - 16:10
Afternoon Coffee Break
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 16:10 - 17:00
Uncertainty in Multijurisdictional Mergers & Its Implications for M&A Activity
  • Proliferation of rules: is the burden unsurmountable? Are they an impediment to new transactions?
  • What does the wave of new regulation mean for EU’s competitiveness in the current geopolitical climate?
  • The future of consolidation
  • Does EU Merger Control need to be reformed?
  • How should corporates handle the interplay between FDI, FSR and merger control
  • Dealing with timeline unpredictability
  • Strategies & tips on getting an authority to accept remedy packages: Is it possible to craft global remedy solutions
  • Craig Minerva - Partner, Axinn
  • Beatriz Sanz Fernández-Vega - Head of Competition and Data Policy, Public Policy, Telefónica S.A.
  • Céline Darrigade - Head of Antitrust & Regulation, Thales
  • Kamya Rajagopal - Senior Legal Counsel – Global Antitrust, Nestlé
  • Christopher Idermark-Boyd - Senior Competition Counsel, Saudi Aramco
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CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 17:00 - 17:40
Review of Procedural Developments
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CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 17:40 - 17:45
Chair’s Closing Remarks & Close of Conference
CompLaw: Merger Control 2024 Agenda 17:45 - 18:45
Networking Drinks Reception
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