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Post Brexit UK and EU Competition Law Enforcement: Increasing Divergence or Plain Sailing?

24 Apr 2023

Location: 12:00pm - 1:00pm UK Time Virtual Event (Zoom)
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Post Brexit UK and EU Competition Law Enforcement: Increasing Divergence or Plain Sailing?

Highlights

The competition law enforcement landscape has changed significantly since Brexit. Substantive divergences are beginning to emerge and parallel merger and antitrust investigations before the CMA and the European Commission are becoming increasingly frequent. The Brexit Withdrawal Acts also provide much greater scope than previously for the English domestic courts to diverge from EU precedents and case law. In addition, the UK also recently introduced its own subsidies control framework at a time when the EU is putting a greater focus on potential distortions caused by foreign subsidies. This webinar will take stock of these and other recent developments and discuss the shape and direction of UK and EU competition law enforcement post Brexit.   

Our Panel of Experts:

Christophe Humpe
Partner
Macfarlanes

Christophe specialises in EU, competition and regulatory law and regularly represents clients before competition authorities and courts.

He has extensive experience across all areas of EU and UK competition law, both contentious and non-contentious, including mergers, competition and cartel investigations, state aid and antitrust damages litigation.


Christophe Humpe
Christophe Humpe Partner
Macfarlanes
Stephen Kon
Senior Consultant
Macfarlanes

Stephen has 40 years’ experience advising and representing clients in a wide range of EU law and UK competition and regulatory matters and is widely recognised as a leading EU and UK competition and regulation lawyer.


Stephen Kon
Stephen Kon Senior Consultant
Macfarlanes
Kristina Barbov
Director UK Competition and Regulatory Law
Microsoft

Kristina Barbov
Kristina Barbov Director UK Competition and Regulatory Law
Microsoft
George Peretz KC
King's Counsel
Monckton Chambers

George’s practice covers a wide range of public law, regulatory and tax issues, with particular strengths in competition and State aid, pharmaceuticals, VAT and customs/trade remedies, and agriculture. George has recently won a number of major cases in the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, European Court of Justice and General Court and regularly leads in the senior English courts as well as in specialist tribunals such as the Competition Appeal Tribunal, Upper Tribunal, and the Tax and General Regulatory Chambers of the First-tier Tribunal. Until he took silk in 2015, George had for many years been a member of the Attorney General’s Panels, including the A panel from 2009, in which capacity he advised and represented the UK Government on a wide range of major EU and public law cases, including many cases in the European Court of Justice and higher English courts.


George Peretz KC
George Peretz KC King's Counsel
Monckton Chambers

Agenda

11:55am
Audience Logon
12:00pm
Chair's Opening Remarks
Speakers:
Christophe Humpe - Partner - Macfarlanes
12:05pm
UK and EU competition law enforcement post Brexit: plain sailing or increasing divergence?
Speakers:
George Peretz KC - King's Counsel - Monckton Chambers
Kristina Barbov - Director UK Competition and Regulatory Law - Microsoft
Stephen Kon - Senior Consultant - Macfarlanes
12.45pm
Panel Q&A
1:00pm
Chair's Summation and Close of Event
Speakers:
Christophe Humpe - Partner - Macfarlanes

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