Competition Events
ThoughtLeaders4 Competition events engage all facets of the Competition Law & Litigation community. Come together to learn, network and grow your practice.
Members will benefit from free attendance at all 4Sight events and discounts to the others. Look through the upcoming events below
Upcoming Events
15 May 2025
The Global Merger Control Forum 2025In this comprehensive, one-day event, you’ll delve into the latest key developments shaping global merger control by the first half of 2025.
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22 May 2025
The CMA Consumer Protection and Enforcement Regime SummitExploring the evolving consumer protection sphere through expert perspectives. Join our competition and consumer law conference where in-house counsel, regulators, practitioners and economists converge to generate discussion on investigations, enforcement trends, litigation and common infringements.
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05 Jun 2025
The Competition Collective Actions Forum 2025 - 3rd AnnualOver one focused, yet comprehensive day, this conference brings together those involved in live cases and the wider competition litigation community to address lessons learned and experience gained to date in this repaidly evolving area of litigation.
Hear your peers address recent case developments, bringing and defending class actions, including key questions around trial, settlement, carriage dispute, class definition, funding and more.
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11 Jun 2025
Economic and Financial Analysis of Valuation Material in Merger Review CasesDynamic competition is becoming an ever more important aspect of merger review processes worldwide. Agencies focus closely on how merging Parties think about the future and this has brought increased attention to models and materials prepared by the Parties when valuing the transaction. Valuation models can be a powerful tool to assess antitrust concerns, and it is, therefore, important to use rigorous economic and financial analysis of these models when using them to predict future competitive outcomes.
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19 Jun 2025
The UK Competition Law Summit 2025 - 2nd AnnualJoin your peers at this unique day Forum focused specifically on the UK’s competition regulatory landscape. This is your opportunity to gain practical perspectives and expert insight on recent and forthcoming developments to the UK’s ever-changing regime as we continue to see the establishment of the UK’s own standards, procedures and increasing investigations in the years since Brexit.
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24 Jun 2025
What Guidance Can Practitioners Take From The UK’s Cartel Litigation Judgments in Relation to the Use of Econometric Evidence?Earlier this year, the CAT published its judgment in Stellantis v Autoliv. It is the fourth judgment to contain a critical evaluation of the use of econometric analysis in UK cartel litigation cases (following BritNed v ABB in 2018, Royal Mail / BT v DAF in 2023, and Granville v LG in 2024). Yet again, the judgment highlights the pivotal role that econometric analysis plays in competition litigation cases.
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01 Sep 2025
Competition Law & Litigation Summer SchoolThis unique two-day summer school has been specifically designed to offer UK Competition Law and Litigation practitioners a comprehensive, yet concise, exploration into the latest UK, EU and Global developments impacting their Practice.
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23 Sep 2025
The UK Digital Markets Competition Regulation Forum 2025 - 3rd AnnualAs the first dedicated Forum to focus specifically on the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act this unique day conference brings together Government, Regulators, In-House Counsel and Private Practice to address the implications for SMS Firms, Non-SMS Firms, Business Users and Consumers exploring what we now know, contrasting with other Regimes and identifying opportunities and threats.
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30 Sep 2025
The EU Competition Law Public Enforcement Summit 2025The EU is currently facing an unprecedented number of antitrust regulatory changes, from updates to 102, 1/2003, merger control, and developments in investigatory tools. In addition, Tereasa Ribera’s mission to build a “competitive European economy” will be taking shape over the course of this year, impacting all aspects of public enforcement.
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07 Oct 2025
The Nordic Competition Law Summit 2025With key regulatory and procedural developments taking place through the Nordic nations and Europe as a whole, this new Copenhangen based Forum is the perfect time and space to discuss their impact and effectiveness on the competition landscape.
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Past Events
29 Apr 2025
The Competition in Financial Services Summit 2025 - 2nd AnnualUnraveling Challenges in Financial Services through expert perspectives. Join our conference on competition law, where in-house counsel, regulators, practitioners, litigators, and barristers converge to decode fintech, payment systems, class actions, and collaboration dynamics.
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17 Apr 2025
Competition Collective Action: Discussing Recent Developments in the CAT’s Opt-Out RegimeAhead of the ‘Competition Collective Actions Forum 2025 - 3rd Annual’ taking place in June, members of your esteemed Event Advisory Board will be highlighting and providing unique insights into recent developments and topics to watch in this rapidly developing area of competition litigation.
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07 Apr 2025
CMA Consumer Protection and Enforcement: Discussing the New RegimeAhead of the ‘The CMA Consumer Protection and Enforcement Regime Summit’ taking place in May, members of your esteemed Event Advisory Board and additional leading voices will be highlighting and providing unique insights into the recent consumer enforcement power and topics to watch in this rapidly developing area in consumer law.
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26 Mar 2025
Celebrating 25 Years Of The Competition Act: Reflections, Achievements, and Future Challenges2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the Competition Act. Having played a critical role in promoting fair competition and preventing abuse of dominance, the Competition Act serves as the touchstone of modern competition regulation in the United Kingdom. As such, ThoughtLeaders4 Competition is delighted to bring together the leading minds from across the Competition community to celebrate this landmark with thought-provoking discussion. This free-to-attend event will reflect on the achievements of the last quarter of a century, and explore the challenges of the next chapter in competition enforcement. This event is a fantastic opportunity to gain insights from those at the forefront of the Competition space, and network with your peers over discussion and drinks.
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20 Mar 2025
The EU Digital Markets Competition Litigation & Compliance Forum 2025From the antitrust implications of EU DMA, AI Act, Data Act, and DSA statutes, the latest in Tech private and public enforcement, to forecasting the priorities of the new Competition Commissioner over the next 4 years, this unique Forum examines the EU’s digital competition law landscape in just one focused but comprehensive day.
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18 Mar 2025
Next Gen Lunch & Learn With RBB Economics: The Basics of Horizontal MergersAimed at our Next Gen audience, we are delighted to invite you to the second in a series of webinars on the fundamentals of competition economics relevant to antitrust law practice. The series covers core economic concepts applicable to common types of competition cases, as well as incorporating recent developments in competition law and policy.
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12 Mar 2025
Pass-On In Competition Litigation: Lessons Learnt and Way ForwardKindly hosted by AlixPartners, join us on 12 March 2025 for Pass-On In Competition Litigation: Lessons Learnt and Way Forward. An evening of insightful content, followed by a drinks reception and networking, we are delighted to bring together esteemed panellists Iona McCall (AlixPartners), Felix Hammeke (AlixPartners), Joseph Moore (Travers Smith), Paul Stuart (Cleary Gottlieb), and Stella Gartagani (Hausfeld).
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25 Feb 2025
Competition In Europe’s Digital Markets: Trends 12 Months On From DMA ImplementationJoin us on 25 February 2025 from 11:00-12:00pm for a webinar exploring competition in Europe's digital markets, examining the trends one year on from the DMA implementation. With insights from our expert panel, Miranda Cole (Perkins Coie), Thomas Hoppner (Hausfeld), Stijn Huijts (Geradin Partners), and Vanessa Van Weelden (Freshfields).
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12 Feb 2025
The Competition Next Gen Summit 2025For too long the competition law and litigation has lacked a dedicated Forum for the next generation of experts to build their own networks, share experiences and develop their personal brand. So with an emphasis on the quality of content and networking, the Competition Law & Litigation Next Gen Summit has been developed in collaboration with an Advisory Board of your peers.
Built around the three key themes of career development, law and litigation select your choice of keynote presentations, focused round tables, fire-side chats, panels session and case studies on the agenda. And, take the opportunity to participate in the host of unique networking opportunities and essay competition all included in one affordable conference price.
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10 Feb 2025
Evidence In Antitrust Cases, A Transatlantic Perspective: Monopolisation and Abuse of Dominance CasesIn the second of a series of webinars focused on evidence in antitrust cases kindly hosted by AlixPartners, the panel will consider exclusionary monopolisation and abuse cases. Speakers from the US and UK will cover the role of economic evidence and how this can be effectively deployed, as well as the approach of agencies and the courts to interpreting documentary and oral evidence. There will be a particular focus on “self-preferencing”, which has been a particular feature of a number of US and European cases (especially involving Big Tech companies) and is covered by the EC’s draft guidelines on exclusionary abuses.
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13 Jan 2025
Collective Actions In Competition Law: What Is Going On?Join chair Maria José Azar-Baud (Angeion Group), Julia Suderow (Suderow Fernández Abogadas), Ben Lasserson (Mishcon De Reya), and Porfírio Moreira (Ferreira Pinto Cardigos Advogados) as they delve into the complex world of collective actions and competition law - and ask themselves, what is going on?
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06 Dec 2024
Future Thought Leaders Essay CompetitionThoughtLeaders4 is proud to present our Future ThoughtLeaders Essay Competition:
Assessed by an illustriously experienced, senior and broad-ranging panel of practitioners this is your chance to stick your head above the parapet and mark yourself as the one-to-watch. With the opportunity to attend and discuss your essay at our The Competition Next Gen Summit 2025, we look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to the Competition community.
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03 Dec 2024
The Competition Law & Artificial Intelligence SummitUnravelling challenges in AI through expert perspectives. Join our competition law conference where in-house counsel, regulators, practitioners and economists converge to generate discussion on mergers, partnerships, legislation and governance.
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02 Dec 2024
The 12 Days of CAT-masJoin chair Chloe Gibbs (Shieldpay), Natasha Pearman (Milberg), Chris Williams (Bench Walk Advisors) and Clare Ducksbury (Case Pilots) as they discuss 12 significant developments in the CAT this year, and their predictions for the year ahead. Counting down the 12 days of CAT-mas, this panel session will provide some valuable updates from within the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
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20 Nov 2024
The EU Competition Law Private Enforcement Forum 2024Join your peers from across the Europe’s competition litigation community, to hear both claimant and defendant insights into private enforcement action at this uniquely dedicated Forum. Gain unique practical insights into recent developments and trends in collective redress, cross-border claims, damages valuations, litigation funding and more.
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12 Nov 2024
Greenwashing Risks In The EU and UK: An Economic PerspectiveIn recent years, regulators in the EU and UK have increased their efforts to tackle greenwashing concerns. In this webinar, we will provide a brief overview of the current regulatory landscape in the UK (e.g., the FCA anti-greenwashing rule, CMA Green Claims Code) and EU (e.g., the Green Claims Directive). We will then discuss areas where risks of litigation and regulatory investigations could arise, while referring to recent cases. Finally, we will consider key economic issues that could arise in such cases, potential theories of harm that Claimants could put forward, and which economic analyses are appropriate to address these issues.
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05 Nov 2024
Next Gen Lunch & Learn With RBB Economics: The Basics of Market DefinitionAimed at our Next Gen audience, we are delighted to invite you to the first in a series of webinars on the fundamentals of competition economics relevant to antitrust law practice. The series will cover core economic concepts applicable to common types of competition cases, as well as incorporating recent developments in competition law and policy.
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10 Oct 2024
Class Actions and Collective Redress – Is It Really A Legal Regime That Has A Future Outside Of The US?Without doubt Class Actions and Collective Redress are gathering pace across the European region, with the UK, Portugal and the Netherlands leading the charge from a filing perspective. Cumulative claimed quantum across regions now stands at a staggering €228bn, but the question is, for the regime to be considered effective, how much will consumers actually receive and when?
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27 Sep 2024
Illumina/Grail Case: EU Court Overturns EU Commission’s DecisionJoin Xavier Boutin (BRG), Miranda Cole (Norton Rose Fulbright), Kasia Czapracka (White & Case), and Timothy McIver (Debevoise & Plimpton) in this webinar focused on the recent landmark annulment of the European Commission's decision in the Illumina/Grail case. Overturning the General Court's interpretation of the EU Merger Regulation Article 22, this panel dives deep into the fascinating development within the Competition space.
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17 Sep 2024
Nordic Trends in Competition LawJoin our expert panel from Finland, Norway and Sweden discussing hot topics on the Nordic scene – what are the current trends in competition law enforcement? Chaired by RBB Economics, join your expert panellists Jan Yngve Sand, Sofia Falkner, and Kiti Karvinen.
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09 Jul 2024
Cartels: Evidence In Antitrust Cases, A Transatlantic PerspectiveIn the first of a series of webinars focused on evidence in antitrust cases, the panel will focus on cartels. Speakers from the US and UK will cover the role of economic evidence and how this can be effectively deployed, as well as the approach of agencies and the courts to interpreting documentary and oral evidence.
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04 Jun 2024
EU and UK Senior Judges and Enforcers Discuss Navigating Merger ControlTogether with Skadden’s European Antitrust/Competition partners and Oxera, ThoughtLeaders4 are delighted to invite you to an evening with senior members of the EU and UK judiciary and competition authorities to discuss the current complexities in navigating merger control.
Please note that complimentary places at this event are limited. If you would like to attend please register your interest as soon as possible.
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21 May 2024
Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill: What To Expect After Royal AssentThe Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill is expected to receive Royal Assent in April 2024. The digital markets parts of the Bill seek to boost competition in digital markets. It will put in place a new regulatory regime to mitigate the market power of the large tech firms that will be designated as having strategic market status (SMS). Once a specific activity is designated by the CMA, it has powers to write bespoke conduct requirements that will significantly change how it operates. The CMA will also have the power to impose pro-competitive interventions to improve the functioning of digital markets, and review more of the SMS firms’ mergers.
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13 May 2024
Unpacking Irish Merger Control: Trends, Economics, StrategiesCCPC scrutiny of mergers is at an all-time high, with two deals being prohibited in the last 18 months and expected time frames to secure clearance for complex deals being anything up to a year. This substantive rigour is accompanied by an increasingly robust approach to procedural issues on the CCPC’s part, and a significantly expanded tool kit.
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29 Apr 2024
How Does Competition in Generative AI Work?Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is the priority topic of competition authorities around the globe. Over the last few months, they announced market studies into GenAI to understand how GenAI works. For the first time, stakeholders and competition authorities are building knowledge simultaneously due to rapid market and regulatory developments. This panel will provide some insights into the functioning of GenAI and the potential competition concerns.
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22 Apr 2024
10x Growth In The UK Litigation Market: Priming An Industry For ScaleThe mass action space in the litigation market is maturing at a rapid pace in the UK. We're set to experience 10x growth in cases, claimants, settlement values and funding in the coming 24 months. What do we need to do as an industry to get ready?
Across the collective redress market, we’re seeing unprecedented growth across the number of cases, cohorts of claimants, the value of settlements and the funding that underpins this era of the mega-group action. Any business or industry that goes through this sort of growth has work to do to prime operating models to be ready to scale. It's a great problem to have, but one that requires us to lean in.
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18 Apr 2024
The Merger Control Forum 2024This one day conference unites experts from throughout the competition law eco-system to address recent cases, developments in the sector, diverging practice methods and more. Exploring these topics will be representatives from Regulators, In-House Counsel, and Private Pracitice.
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07 Mar 2024
Coming Soon: AI and Competition Law: Enforcement at a Cross-RoadsWatch this space for a new confirmed date for this panel session.
The rapid advances in AI, in particular large language models (LLMs), over the last couple of years looks set to have a transformative impact on all aspects of our lives. Applications for AI already impact our workplaces, politics, music, television and international relations. Further, the power and effectiveness of LLMs and other AI enabled technologies appear to have the potential to advance rapidly, as their predictive power is enhanced through use and through the sharing of data by users.
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01 Mar 2024
The Future of Funding Collective Actions in the UKUncertainty beset the UK’s growing litigation funding market following the Supreme Court’s surprising decision in PACCAR, where it was decided that litigation funding agreements under which funders are remunerated by a portion of awarded damages are damages-based agreements, and therefore unenforceable unless compliant with the Damages-Based Agreements Regulations 2013. Damages-based agreements also cannot be used for collective proceedings in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), as per the CAT Rules.
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22 Jan 2024
Group Action Settlement Distribution: Addressing Challenges and Best Practice SolutionsIt can take many years to finally reach agreement on paying people who have been harmed through the legal settlement process and vehicles such as Class Actions or Group Litigations Orders. This webinar will discuss the payment challenges and position a series of best practise approaches to making sure that all claimants receive what is rightfully theirs.
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26 Sep 2023
Addressing the Intersection of Consumer Protection & Competition LawLed by Fountain Court Chambers, this webinar will look at competition and consumer enforcement, discussing a variety of areas such as the general trends and developments in this sphere and their increased integration. Our panel will also delve into the relationship between competition enforcement proceedings, consumer protection and class actions whilst also cosnidering potential alternantives and legislative changes in these areas.
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15 Sep 2023
Distribution of Damages: The possible roles of the lawyer, economist and claims administratorDiscussing damages and distribution methodologies in collective actions and the possible role of lawyers, economists, and claims administrators. We will look at the nascent UK landscape and what we can learn from the US experience.
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17 Jul 2023
Self-Preferencing in Digital Markets: The Focus of Enforcement and Emerging TrendsSince the European Commission’s milestone Google Shopping decision, self-preferencing theories of harm have taken a key role in European competition enforcement in digital markets. Recent (proposed) regulation of digital markets targeting certain forms of self-preferencing reinforces the focus on such practices. Understanding the impact on consumer outcomes of self-preferencing conduct, and determining which forms self-preferencing should be priority for enforcement, can be complex.
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07 Jul 2023
Private Antitrust Litigation in Italy: Opportunities, Risks, Recent Developments and Horizon-ScanningWhile historically private antitrust enforcement in Italy was somewhat of a niche area without substantial damages awards, in recent years the landscape has changed quite dramatically. This is increasingly putting Italy on the radar of those in Europe who follow and drive private antitrust litigation. At the same time, this is bringing about increased risk for companies infringing, or allegedly infringing, competition laws.
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30 Jun 2023
Competition Law in the Financial Services SectorOur panel will discuss key developments affecting firms in the financial services sector in this webinar. This will cover a wide range of topics, such as the FCA's Wholesale Data Market Study, the FCA's Consumer Duty, the CMA's draft guidance on environmental sustainability agreements, the UK government's proposed changes to the competition law framework, and the impact of big tech on financial services markets.
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12 Jun 2023
In-House Viewpoint Series: Structuring Sound Competition Compliance ProgrammesWith competition laws and regulations becoming increasingly complex and regulators toughening their approach to enforcement, non-compliance can result in hefty fines, reputational damage and disqualification of Directors. Accordingly, it has never been more essential for businesses to ensure sound compliance programmes are in place to mitigate these risks. During this virtual event in-house representatives from Meta, Barclays, Hasbro and HSBC will discuss key challenges and their experiences.
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Jun 2023
Competition Next GenBringing together up-and-coming practitioners specialising in Competition to forge networks, discuss experiences and share knowledge.
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12 May 2023
Navigating the Interplay of Sustainability and Competition LawESG continues to gain prominence as companies look to comply with reporting requirements and increasingly recognise the positive returns to investment in this area. Led by Grant Thornton and featuring the Executive Director for Enforcement at the CMA, your expert webinar panel will discuss a variety of topical issues around ESG and how the Competition Authorities are developing detailed guidance on the interplay between competition law and sustainability agreements / collaborations among competitors on ESG initiatives.
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28 Apr 2023
Big Tech vs. the Regulators: Addressing Recent Antitrust Battles and Pending Developments in Digital MarketsAttend this webinar to hear the EU Commission, legal and economic specialist address what it is about the large technology companies that have made them a particular focus of investigations by the European Commission and national competition regulators, and the various types of behaviour by those companies that are recurrent issues those investigations.
The panel will also discuss the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act which, depending on your perspective, either provides welcome legislative certainty in relation to some of these behaviours or is an exercise of legislative power by one of the disputants in order to win the argument.
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24 Apr 2023
Post Brexit UK and EU Competition Law Enforcement: Increasing Divergence or Plain Sailing?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. 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.
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17 Apr 2023
Competition Enforcement – Views From Both Sides of the ChannelAt this virtual event, we will bring together the CMA and European Commission to discuss recent developments in the enforcement of 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.
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24 Mar 2023
Discussing Recent Competition Collective Action DevelopmentsAhead of the ‘Competition Collective Actions Forum 2023’ taking place in June, your esteemed Event Advisory Board will be highlighting and providing unique insights into recent developments and topics to watch in this rapidly developing area of competition litigation. Featuring specialists actively engaged in today’s key cases from both claimant and defendant firms, hear first-hand perspectives from the coal face as 6 leading Partners share views, opinions and shed light on key topics that will be majored on at the Forum on the 6th June.
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13 Mar 2023
UK Subsidy Control Act 2022 – Now live but what does it mean in practice?Our expert panel Professor Suzanne Rab of Serle Court, Nicole Robins of Oxera, and Daniel Schwarz of Clifford Chance discuss the Subsidy Control Act 2022 which came into force on 4 January 2023. This session provides an opportunity for early exploration of the new regulatory framework where questions over interpretation and enforcement are yet to be fully determined.
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03 Mar 2023
Enhancing Efficiency for Class Certification and Evidence Gathering with Large Group ClaimsLed by BRG, your expert panel will discuss the use of surveys for large claimant groups in relation to collective actions. The panel will address a variety of topics including the position of surveys and their approach to class certification, how they identify the correct class, their status, and how they can be used to calculate damages. Panellists will also delve into case studies and share their practical experiences in these areas.
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