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In this live event, Khushita Vasant (MLex) is interviewing Olivier Guersent (DG COMP) on 20 years of competition policy and the first stage of implementation of the DMA.

In this new episode, Fayrouze Masmi-Dazi (Dazi Avocats) interviewed Yann Guthmann (French Competition Authority) on where are we and what is to come for Artificial Intelligence Antitrust

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1. Nicole L. Castle, Jon B. Dubrow, Noah Feldman Greene, Gregory E. Heltzer, Joel R. Grosberg, Raymond Jacobsen, The US FTC and DOJ propose new draft Merger Guidelines which introduce substantial changes including reduction in the threshold for presuming competitive harm in horizontal mergers and a new structural presumption for vertical mergers, 19 July 2023

2. Craig A. Waldman, Aimee E. DeFilippo, Michael A. Gleason, Michael H. Knight, Jeremy P. Morrison, Pamela L. Taylor, Ryan C. Thomas, The US FTC and DOJ propose important changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for premerger filings, 29 June 2023

3. Gabrielle Kohlmeier, Jennifer E. Mellott, Meghan Rissmiller, Mergers in the telecommunications sector: An overview of EU and US case law, 29 June 2023

4. David M. Harrison, Sarah Wilks, Ruth Neligan, UK : Trends in merger control post-Brexit : Fresh out of the oven, May 2023

5. Nicholas Xenakis, Ryan K. Quillian, The US House of Representatives passes a legislative package updating legislation on antitrust, FDI and mergers, 29 September 2022

6. Marc Freedman, The UK Government publishes a report summarising FDI under the new screening regime, 16 June 2022

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1. Cary Coglianese, Alicia Lai, Algorithms and Competition in the Digital Economy, 5 October 2023

2. Omar Shah, Leonidas Theodosiou, Savas Manoussakis, Nina Jayne Carroll, The UK Competition Authority releases its initial AI foundation models report and the guiding principles for firms, 18 September 2023

3. Thibault Schrepel, Generative AI, pyramids and legal institutionalism, September 2023

4. Philip Marsden, UK Competition law & Digital markets: An overview of national case law, 13 July 2023

5. Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Peter Rowland, Jose Munoz, The EU Commission publishes the names of the companies that have declared that they meet the thresholds to qualify as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (Alphabet / Amazon / Apple / ByteDance / Meta / Microsoft...), 4 July 2023

6. Yannis Katsoulacos, Accelerating antitrust enforcement through the use of more presumption-based legal standards for the big-tech digital markets, May 2023

7. Nigel Parr, Anna Morfey, Christopher Eberhardt, Fiona Garside, The UK Government announces the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to introduce a wide range of reforms in the regulation of Big Tech, 25 April 2023

8. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ adds 9 State Attorneys General to its joint suit against a Big Tech company for monopolising digital advertising technologies (Google), 17 April 2023

9. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ, FTC, and EU Commission hold the third meeting of the EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue, 30 March 2023

10. Adam Acosta, Mark J. Gidley, George Paul, Gabriela Baca, Cassandra Calderon, Sandra González Sánchez, The US DoJ joins with the Latin American Competition Authorities to launch parallel investigations and enforcement actions involving alleged anticompetitive restrictions on digital products and in-app purchases, digital advertising, self-preferencing, and various exclusivity arrangements, 2 March 2023

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In this new episode, Neil Dryden (Compass Lexecon) is interviewing David Tudor (Prosus) on where we are and what is to come for tech antitrust.

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#1 DIGITAL REGULATIONS : AMERICAS, EU, UK & ASIA

1. Cary Coglianese, Alicia Lai, Algorithms and Competition in the Digital Economy, 5 October 2023

2. Omar Shah, Leonidas Theodosiou, Savas Manoussakis, Nina Jayne Carroll, The UK Competition Authority releases its initial AI foundation models report and the guiding principles for firms, 18 September 2023

3. Thibault Schrepel, Generative AI, pyramids and legal institutionalism, September 2023

4. Philip Marsden, UK Competition law & Digital markets: An overview of national case law, 13 July 2023

5. Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Peter Rowland, Jose Munoz, The EU Commission publishes the names of the companies that have declared that they meet the thresholds to qualify as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (Alphabet / Amazon / Apple / ByteDance / Meta / Microsoft...), 4 July 2023

6. Yannis Katsoulacos, Accelerating antitrust enforcement through the use of more presumption-based legal standards for the big-tech digital markets, May 2023

7. Nigel Parr, Anna Morfey, Christopher Eberhardt, Fiona Garside, The UK Government announces the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to introduce a wide range of reforms in the regulation of Big Tech, 25 April 2023

8. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ adds 9 State Attorneys General to its joint suit against a Big Tech company for monopolising digital advertising technologies (Google), 17 April 2023

9. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ, FTC, and EU Commission hold the third meeting of the EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue, 30 March 2023

10. Adam Acosta, Mark J. Gidley, George Paul, Gabriela Baca, Cassandra Calderon, Sandra González Sánchez, The US DoJ joins with the Latin American Competition Authorities to launch parallel investigations and enforcement actions involving alleged anticompetitive restrictions on digital products and in-app purchases, digital advertising, self-preferencing, and various exclusivity arrangements, 2 March 2023

#2 MERGER CONTROL & FDI

1. Nicole L. Castle, Jon B. Dubrow, Noah Feldman Greene, Gregory E. Heltzer, Joel R. Grosberg, Raymond Jacobsen, The US FTC and DOJ propose new draft Merger Guidelines which introduce substantial changes including reduction in the threshold for presuming competitive harm in horizontal mergers and a new structural presumption for vertical mergers, 19 July 2023

2. Craig A. Waldman, Aimee E. DeFilippo, Michael A. Gleason, Michael H. Knight, Jeremy P. Morrison, Pamela L. Taylor, Ryan C. Thomas, The US FTC and DOJ propose important changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for premerger filings, 29 June 2023

3. Gabrielle Kohlmeier, Jennifer E. Mellott, Meghan Rissmiller, Mergers in the telecommunications sector: An overview of EU and US case law, 29 June 2023

4. David M. Harrison, Sarah Wilks, Ruth Neligan, UK : Trends in merger control post-Brexit : Fresh out of the oven, May 2023

5. Nicholas Xenakis, Ryan K. Quillian, The US House of Representatives passes a legislative package updating legislation on antitrust, FDI and mergers, 29 September 2022

6. Marc Freedman, The UK Government publishes a report summarising FDI under the new screening regime, 16 June 2022

#3 DIGITAL COMPETITION ENFORCEMENT: IN-HOUSE COUNSEL PERSPECTIVES

1. European Commission, The EU Commission sends a Statement of Objection to a Big Tech company over abusive practices in online advertising technology (Google ad tech), 14 June 2023

2. Ronan Scanlan, The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal announces the receipt of an application to review the Competition Authority’s decision to prohibit the acquisition of a leading video game publisher (Microsoft / Activision Blizzard), 26 May 2023

3. Lazar Radic, The US Court of Appeal of the 9th Circuit partially upholds the district court’s judgment regarding a Big Tech company’s prohibition of third-party app stores and in-app-payment systems from operating on its proprietary iOS platform (Epic Games / Apple), 24 April 2023

4. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ adds 9 State Attorneys General to its joint suit against a Big Tech company for monopolising digital advertising technologies (Google), 17 April 2023

5. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ prosecutes a former digital interactive whiteboard salesman and secures a guilty plea for rigging bids harming the largest public school system in the United States (Dwayne Johnson), 15 February 2023

6. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ and 8 State Attorneys General sues a Big Tech company for monopolizing digital advertising technologies, and for the first time in decades seeks damages for a civil antitrust violation (Google), 24 January 2023

In this new episode, Milena Robotham (Clifford Chance) is interviewing Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo (CADE) on where we are and what is to come for tech antitrust.

Video available onConcurrences Youtube channel

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If you want to read more about this topic, check theConcurrences websitewhere you can find allrelevant articles:

1. Cary Coglianese, Alicia Lai, Algorithms and Competition in the Digital Economy, 5 October 2023

2. Omar Shah, Leonidas Theodosiou, Savas Manoussakis, Nina Jayne Carroll, The UK Competition Authority releases its initial AI foundation models report and the guiding principles for firms, 18 September 2023

3. Thibault Schrepel, Generative AI, pyramids and legal institutionalism, September 2023

4. Philip Marsden, UK Competition law & Digital markets: An overview of national case law, 13 July 2023

5. Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Peter Rowland, Jose Munoz, The EU Commission publishes the names of the companies that have declared that they meet the thresholds to qualify as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (Alphabet / Amazon / Apple / ByteDance / Meta / Microsoft...), 4 July 2023

6. Yannis Katsoulacos, Accelerating antitrust enforcement through the use of more presumption-based legal standards for the big-tech digital markets, May 2023

7. Nigel Parr, Anna Morfey, Christopher Eberhardt, Fiona Garside, The UK Government announces the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to introduce a wide range of reforms in the regulation of Big Tech, 25 April 2023

8. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ adds 9 State Attorneys General to its joint suit against a Big Tech company for monopolising digital advertising technologies (Google), 17 April 2023

9. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ, FTC, and EU Commission hold the third meeting of the EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue, 30 March 2023

10. Adam Acosta, Mark J. Gidley, George Paul, Gabriela Baca, Cassandra Calderon, Sandra González Sánchez, The US DoJ joins with the Latin American Competition Authorities to launch parallel investigations and enforcement actions involving alleged anticompetitive restrictions on digital products and in-app purchases, digital advertising, self-preferencing, and various exclusivity arrangements, 2 March 2023

In this new episode, Margrethe Vestager (Vice President of the EU Commission) speaks on digital and antitrust policy at the Tech Antitrust conference held in Palo Alto on January 11, 2024 by Concurrences in partnership withClifford ChanceandCompass Lexecon.

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A highly informative dialogue between Judge Douglas Ginsburg (US Court of Appeals) and Judge Diane Wood (US Court of Appeal), on the subject of the book "Judicial Review of Competition Cases", published by Concurrences:

https://www.concurrences.com/en/all-books/judicial-review-of-competition-cases