The EC’s Draft Merger Guidelines

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Daniele Calisti, who heads the EC’s Mergers Case Support and Policy Unit. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the Draghi Report, the Draft Merger Guidelines, the role of scale, competitiveness, innovation, and efficiencies in merger control, the Booking/eTraveli judgment, and much more.

In our latest Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Chris Meyers, Associate General Counsel for EU Competition Law at Amazon. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including antitrust enforcement against Big Tech, digital regulation, merger control, and much more.

In our latest Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy hosts a panel discussion of the European General Court’s judgment upholding the European Commission’s landmark prohibition of the Booking/eTraveli transaction. Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz, who represented Booking before the Court, Chris Cook, Anita Magraner Oliver, Amaryllis Müller, and RBB Economics’ Dan Gore explain the facts of the case, the significance of the Commission’s decision, and the implications of the Court’s judgment for EU merger control.

In our latest Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Anthony Andrew Ferguson, Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the objectives of antitrust enforcement, America First Antitrust, the consumer welfare standard, the unitary executive theory, Big Tech, and much more.

In our latest Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Anthony Gardner, former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the Draghi Report, Brexit, Europe’s future, the Trump Administration, China, antitrust enforcement, and much more.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Nicolas Petit, Professor of Competition Law at the European University Institute in Florence. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including Europe’s future, the Draghi Report, the purpose of competition law, the EC’s Draft Merger Guidelines, the role of innovation, Big Tech, AI, and much more.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Guillaume Loriot, the EC’s Head of Mergers at GCR Live: Europe. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the EC’s Draft Merger Guidelines, the Draghi Report, the jurisdictional scope of EU merger control, the role of innovation, international cooperation, and much more.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Andreas Mundt, President of the German Federal Cartel Office. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the objectives of competition law, the Draghi Report, merger control, antitrust enforcement, digital regulation, international cooperation, and much more.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the EC’s draft Merger Guidelines. Sir Philip Lowe, Sir Jonathan Faull, Barbara Moens, Jorge Padilla, Ethel Fonseca, Kirsten Edwards-Warren, Enrique González-Díaz, Anita Magraner Oliver, and Chris Cook discuss a wide array of topics, including the importance of scale, industrial policy, dynamic competition, innovation, resilience, and efficiencies in assessing mergers.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the objectives of competition law, the UK Government’s strategic steer, merger control, antitrust enforcement, consumer protection, digital regulation, and much more.