Virtual

Competition Enforcement – Views From Both Sides of the Channel

17 Apr 2023

Location: 12:00pm - 1:00pm UK Time Virtual Event (Zoom)
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Competition Enforcement – Views From Both Sides of the Channel

Highlights

At this virtual event, we are bringing together the CMA and European Commission to discuss recent developments in the enforcement of the competition rules in the European Union and the United Kingdom. We will focus on public enforcement but will also touch on private enforcement and the role competition agencies can play in it.

  • EU and UK – Friends or rivals? 
  • What can we learn from recent judgements in the Court of Justice and the UK Courts?
  • Private enforcement – How do competition agencies stay in control of competition policy?
  • What role for competition enforcement against Big Tech after implementation of the DMA and DMU regimes?
  • Looking ahead: what issues should competition authorities prioritise next?

Our Panel of Experts:

Jessica Radke
Senior Litigation Director
CMA

Jessica Radke
Jessica Radke Senior Litigation Director
CMA
Martin Farley
Legal Service
European Commission

Martin Farley
Martin Farley Legal Service
European Commission
Stijn Huijts
Partner
Geradin Partners (Belgium)

Stijn is a partner at Geradin Partners. Before joining the firm, Stijn was Legal Director at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

 

At Geradin Partners, Stijn plays a leading role in the multi-jurisdictional litigation on behalf of publishers against Google relating to its practices in advertising technology (Ad Tech). He is also involved in litigation against Apple relating to the App Store. Outside of litigation, Stijn represents clients in investigations before the European Commission, CMA and Dutch ACM, both defendant and complainant side.

 

At the CMA, Stijn built up extensive experience leading complex competition investigations. Stijn led the legal teams in a number of high-profile investigations in the life sciences sector, including Hydrocortisone, which featured a record-breaking £260m penalty, Fludrocortisone in which the CMA secured a multi-million settlement for the National Health Service, and Quantum Pharmaceuticals.

  

Stijn also led the CMA’s legal preparations for Brexit, advising the UK Government on all legislation and guidance required to prepare the UK’s competition regime for Brexit. In addition, he represented the UK in its final competition intervention in the EU Courts in the landmark merger appeal in Case T-399/16 CK Telecoms v Commission. Stijn also advised the UK Government on the Exclusion Orders issued by the Secretary of State to the Groceries, Healthcare and Transport sectors in response to the coronavirus crisis.

 

Stijn is Dutch-qualified and fluent in Dutch and, prior to joining the CMA eight years ago, advised clients in relation to Dutch and EU-related issues at Houthoff, a leading independent Dutch firm.


Stijn Huijts
Stijn Huijts Partner
Geradin Partners (Belgium)
Verity Egerton-Doyle
Partner, UK Co-Head of Technology Sector & Global Co-Head of Games & Interactive Entertainment
Linklaters

Verity is a counsel in Linklaters’ London Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group and co-head of the UK technology sector team.

Verity has over a decade of experience across advisory, investigatory and transactional aspects of competition law in the EU and the UK, including on vertical and abuse of dominance issues. She is particularly familiar with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, having spent time on secondment to the CMA’s mergers group, during which she sat on the CMA’s Mergers Intelligence Committee. 


Verity Egerton-Doyle
Verity Egerton-Doyle Partner, UK Co-Head of Technology Sector & Global Co-Head of Games & Interactive Entertainment
Linklaters

Agenda

11:55am
Audience logon
12:00pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Stijn Huijts - Partner - Geradin Partners (Belgium)
12:05pm
Competition Enforcement – Views From Both Sides of the Channel
Speakers:
Jessica Radke - Senior Litigation Director - CMA
Martin Farley - Legal Service - European Commission
Verity Egerton-Doyle - Partner, UK Co-Head of Technology Sector & Global Co-Head of Games & Interactive Entertainment - Linklaters
Stijn Huijts - Partner - Geradin Partners (Belgium)
12:45pm
Panel Q&A
1:00pm
Chair's Summation and Close of Event
Speakers:
Stijn Huijts - Partner - Geradin Partners (Belgium)

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