
Agenda
Registration
9.00am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
9.30am

Darach Connolly, Partner
DLA Piper
Morning Keynote: Insights from the CCPC
9.40am
Insights from Sectoral Regulators
10.10am
This session will feature representatives from regulatory bodies such as the CMA, Coimisiún na Meán, the Data Protection Commission and ComReg
- Focus areas of various regulatory agencies
- Jurisdictional priorities
- Regulatory interplay and collaboration
Networking & Refreshment Break
10.50am
Managing Regulatory Investigations and Enforcement Powers
11:10am
- Managing the new enforcement powers of the CCPC
- Dawn Raids: Are they on the rise and are the warranted
- The use of evidence in cases

Dr. Kasturi Moodilayar, Associate
Addleshaw Goddard
Examining Merger Control in Ireland and the EU
11:50am
- Recent trends in merger decisions
- The role of theories of harm in merger cases
- Use of Phase II investigations and increasing information requests
- Coordinating multi-jurisdictional cases with the EC and CCPC

Kate McKenna, Partner
Matheson

Daniel Gore, Partner
RBB Economics
Networking & Lunch Break
12:30pm
Afternoon Keynote: Insights from the European Commission
1:30pm
Analysing FDI Filing and Screening
2.00pm
- Implementation of Ireland’s new FDI screening regime
- How the Irish regime aligns with the EU FDI Regulation
- Industries under scrutiny: tech, pharma

Matthew Sinclair-Thomson, Partner
Kirkland & Ellis
Navigating the DSA, DMA and Further Digital Markets Regulation
2.40pm
- Impact of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on Irish businesses and platforms
- Interaction between competition law and data privacy in tech markets
- Algorithmic collusion and digital pricing strategies
- The impact of artificial intelligence
Networking & Refreshment Break
3:20pm
Understanding Remedy Tools and their Uses
3:40pm
- The use of structural and behavioural remedies in cases
- Recent cases and how remedies were used
- Regulatory guidance on remedies
- The role of monitoring trustees
Highlight Recent Updates in Cartels
4:20pm
- Updated methods of cartel detection
- Ramifications of algorithmic pricing
- Cross-boarder matters
- Lessons from recent cartel decisions
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
5:00pm
This session will feature representatives from regulatory bodies such as the CMA, Coimisiún na Meán, the Data Protection Commission and ComReg
- Focus areas of various regulatory agencies
- Jurisdictional priorities
- Regulatory interplay and collaboration
- Managing the new enforcement powers of the CCPC
- Dawn Raids: Are they on the rise and are the warranted
- The use of evidence in cases
- Recent trends in merger decisions
- The role of theories of harm in merger cases
- Use of Phase II investigations and increasing information requests
- Coordinating multi-jurisdictional cases with the EC and CCPC
Daniel Gore - Partner - RBB Economics
- Implementation of Ireland’s new FDI screening regime
- How the Irish regime aligns with the EU FDI Regulation
- Industries under scrutiny: tech, pharma
- Impact of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on Irish businesses and platforms
- Interaction between competition law and data privacy in tech markets
- Algorithmic collusion and digital pricing strategies
- The impact of artificial intelligence
- The use of structural and behavioural remedies in cases
- Recent cases and how remedies were used
- Regulatory guidance on remedies
- The role of monitoring trustees
- Updated methods of cartel detection
- Ramifications of algorithmic pricing
- Cross-boarder matters
- Lessons from recent cartel decisions

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