16 January 2020

Cartels Workshop: An advanced seminar on substantive and procedural EU developments

Date & place

Thursday 16 January 2020 from 12:00 to 15:00 CET

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Herbert Smith Freehills (Brussels)

Rue de Loxum 25

1000 Brussels Belgium

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Program

Registration & Walking lunch

12.00

Fines: How to calculate the value of sales?

12.30

James BAKER	Associate Director, Frontier Economics, London
Milan KRISTOF	Legal Secretary, Court of Justice, Luxembourg
Gerald MIERSCH	Head of Unit (Cartels I), DG COMP, Brussels
Josh SHERER	Associate General Counsel, Competition, HSBC, London
Daniel VOWDEN	Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills, Brussels
Moderator: Kyriakos FOUNTOUKAKOS	Managing Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills, Brussels

Dawn raids & investigations: What are the limits of the Commission’s powers?

13.30

Angélique DE BROUSSE	Senior Legal Counsel, Johnson & Johnson, Brussels
Craig EARNSHAW	Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, London
Georgios GRYLLOS	Legal Secretary, General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg
Dirk VAN ERPS	Adviser to the Deputy Director-General for Antitrust and Cartels, DG COMP, Brussels
Moderator: Bo VESTERDORF	Consultant, Herbert Smith Freehills, Brussels - Former President of the European Court of First Instance, Luxembourg

Coffee & Cookies

14.30

Documentations

Fines: How to calculate the value of sales?

Marcel Boyer, Anne Catherine Faye, Éric Gravel, Rachidi Kotchoni, Guiding principles in setting cartel sanctions, September 2019, Concurrences Review N° 3-2019, Art. N° 91218

Tony Woodgate, Ajit Kainth, The EU Court of justice clarifies the approach to be taken by the Commission on the issue of internal sales when setting a cartel fine (LG Display), 23 April 2015, e-Competitions Bulletin April 2015, Art. N° 77184

"Antitrust fines : is the sky the limit?", 14 May 2019, Seminar organised by Concurrences review in partnership with McDermott Will & Emery and Extent Economics

Dawn Raids & Investigations: What are the limits of the Commission’s power?

Simon Holmes, Sir Marcus Smith QC, Rights of defence and competition law: An overview of EU and national case law, 18 July 2019, e-Competitions Bulletin Rights of Defence, Art. N° 90706

Stéphane Rodrigues, Dawn Raids Under Challenge. Due Process Aspects on the European Commission’s Dawn Raid Practices, Helene ANDERSSON, November 2018, Concurrences Review N° 4-2018, Art. N° 88314

Peter Citron, The EU Court of Justice clarifies the ban of "fishing expeditions" during dawn raids (Deutsche Bahn), 18 June 2015, e-Competitions Bulletin June 2015, Art. N° 74050

Organizers

This first edition of the Cartels Workshop will take place in Brussels on Thursday 16 January 2020. The seminar is organised by Concurrences in partnership with Herbert Smith Freehills. Chatham House Rule applies. Attendance is by registration only. No on-site registration. The list of participants will be communicated to the speakers.