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...

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...

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,...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Martijn Snoep, Chair of the Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the role of sustainability 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 Barry Hawk, one of antitrust law’s leading jurists and commentators.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, the evolution of EU competition law, the proliferation of antitrust agencies, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by George Cary, one of the leading U.S. antitrust lawyers of his generation and a former Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the continued relevance of the consumer welfare standard, U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, hipster economics, merger control, Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Sir John Vickers, Warden of Oxford University’s All Souls College and a former head of the Office of Fair Trading, the predecessor to the Competition & Markets Authority.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the relevance of industrial economics, the evolution of UK competition law, the CMA’s enforcement priorities post-Brexit, consumer protection, merger control,...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Damien Gerard, Prosecutor General of the Belgian Competition Authority.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the agency’s enforcement priorities, enhanced capabilities, and new powers, merger control, sustainability, Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Bill Kovacic, a legend in the world of antitrust.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including Bill’s 50-year career, the consumer welfare standard, the progressive leadership of the U.S. antitrust agencies, regulation of Big Tech, the global antitrust landscape, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Maria Jaspers, who heads the EC’s Cartels Directorate. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the EC’s enforcement practice and leniency program, dawn raids in a digital world, the settlement procedure, follow-on damages actions, global enforcement, and much more.

In the latest instalment of the Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Saverio Valentino, Board member of the Italian Antitrust Authority. The conversation covers Saverio’s first year in the role, the agency’s current priorities, merger control and FDI regulation, cartel enforcement, rights of defence, judicial review, and much more.

In the latest instalment of the Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive of the Competition & Markets Authority.  Their conversation covers a range of topics, including her first year in the role, merger control, Microsoft/Activision, cartel enforcement, judicial review, international coordination, sustainability, and her plans for the future.

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 developments in 2023 and their predictions for antitrust enforcement in 2024.  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 Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair of the ACCC, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Their conversation covers Gina’s first 18 months as Chair of the ACCC, the proposed reforms of Australian merger control, the ACCC’s enforcement practice, the role of sustainability considerations, the regulation of Big Tech, and much more.

In the latest instalment of the Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Bruce Hoffman, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition between August 2017 and December 2019, and Dave Gelfand, who served from 2013 through 2016 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  Their conversation focuses on U.S. merger control, including Microsoft/Activision, the Baker Hughes framework, recent...

In the latest episode of Cleary’s Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Alberto Bacchiega, Director of the Commission’s Digital Platforms Directorate, which is charged with implementing the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act.   Their conversation covers the Commission’s implementation of the Act, its designation of gatekeepers and core platform services that will subject to its obligations, the parallel application of national regulatory regimes and Article 102, and how the Commission...

In the latest instalment of Cleary’s Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Dr. Jorge Padilla, one of Europe’s leading antitrust economists.  Their conversation covers Jorge’s 30-year career, the evolution in the application of economics and the use of economists in European merger control, the scope for advancing economic evidence in antitrust cases, the role that economics can play in enabling agencies to take account of sustainability objectives, and the impending regulation of...

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Sir Jonathan Faull. Their conversation covers Sir Jonathan’s 30-year career at the European Commission, including the early days of the EU Merger Regulation, the legacy of DG COMP’s Modernization Program, which he helped to design in the early 2000’s, the negotiations that preceded the Brexit vote, where he played a critical role in representing the European Union, the future of the European Union...

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...

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.