Antitrust Review

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair of the ACCC, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Their conversation covers Gina’s first 18 months as Chair of the ACCC, the proposed reforms of Australian merger control, the ACCC’s enforcement practice, the role of sustainability considerations, the regulation of Big Tech, and much mor...

In the latest instalment of the Cleary Gottlieb Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Bruce Hoffman, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition between August 2017 and December 2019, and Dave Gelfand, who served from 2013 through 2016 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.  Their conversation focu...

In the latest episode of Cleary’s Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Alberto Bacchiega, Director of the Commission’s Digital Platforms Directorate, which is charged with implementing the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act.   Their conversation covers the Commission’s implementation of the Act, its designation of gatekeepers and core platform services that will subject to its obligat...

In the latest instalment of Cleary’s Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Dr. Jorge Padilla, one of Europe’s leading antitrust economists.  Their conversation covers Jorge’s 30-year career, the evolution in the application of economics and the use of economists in European merger control, the scope for advancing economic evidence in antitrust cases, the role that economics can play i...

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Sir Jonathan Faull. Their conversation covers Sir Jonathan’s 30-year career at the European Commission, including the early days of the EU Merger Regulation, the legacy of DG COMP’s Modernization Program, which he helped to design in the early 2000’s, the negotiations that preceded the Brexit vote, where...

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by legendary EU antitrust lawyer and jurist Mario Siragusa. Their conversation looks back at Mario’s 50-year career as one of the leading practitioners of his generation, surveys changes in EU competition law and legal practice that have occurred over the period, discusses the current enforcement environment, and provides advice t...

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy, co-head of Cleary Gottlieb’s award-winning antitrust practice, is joined by Professor Frédéric Jenny, the legendary jurist and Chair of the OECD Competition Law and Policy Committee.  Among other things, they discuss the current enforcement environment, the “weaponization” of antitrust, divergence, harmonization, and cooperation betwe...

In the latest episode of Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Cleary Gottlieb experts Jackie Holland, Henry Mostyn and Conor Opdebeeck-Wilson to discuss the UK’s proposal for a new regime regulating the world’s leading digital platforms.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the scope of the new law; its interaction with existing UK antitrust enforcement powers and...

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review, host Nick Levy is joined by Henri Piffaut, Vice-President of the French Competition Authority, to discuss the agency’s enforcement practice, the role of politics in merger control, differences between the French Competition Authority and DG COMP, where Henri worked for many years, and the outlook for the coming year.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Sir Philip Lowe, former Director-General of DG COMP. The conversation covers an array of topics spanning Philip’s 50-year career, including the reforms he introduced as Director-General to merger control, antitrust enforcement, Article 102 and private damages actions, the impact of Brexit on UK competiti...

In episode thirteen of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Guillaume Loriot, who, following a 20-year career at DG COMP, is now the EC’s Deputy Director-General for Mergers. Their conversation covers a broad range of topics, including the EC’s merger enforcement practice and remedies policy, the jurisdictional ambit of the EU Merger Regulation, the EU’s new foreig...

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews author, scholar and expert in international antitrust and trade law Professor Anu Bradford. The conversation covers a range of topics raised by Anu in The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World and her upcoming book, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology , which will...

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews members of Cleary Gottlieb’s award-winning antitrust practice about the principal legal developments in 2022 and their predictions for the enforcement of antitrust law in 2023. Partners from across the world share their thoughts about the past year and what’s in store for the next 12 months.

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including merger control, cartel enforcement, legislative change in Germany, data and Big Tech, sustainability, and much more.

In the third episode of a three-part series on U.S. antitrust enforcement, host Nick Levy interviews Cleary Gottlieb colleagues Bruce Hoffman and Leah Brannon about the U.S. enforcement environment for Big Tech, the agencies’ application of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and the prospects for legislative change.

In the second episode of a three-part series on U.S. antitrust enforcement, host Nick Levy interviews Cleary Gottlieb colleagues Dave Gelfand and Heather Nyongo’o about U.S. antitrust and merger litigation, the prospects for legislative change in the U.S., and their practical experiences of handling major litigation at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and in private practice. This po...

In the first episode of a three-part series on U.S. antitrust enforcement, host Nick Levy interviews Cleary Gottlieb colleagues George Cary and Elaine Ewing about U.S. merger control under President Biden.  Their discussion examines the current enforcement environment, the prospects for legislative reform, and much more. This podcast was created as a service to clients and friends of Cleary G...

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, a panel of Cleary Gottlieb experts unpack the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act, explaining its scope and implications for the world’s leading digital platforms.  Nick Levy, host of the podcast and partner at Cleary Gottlieb, is joined by three of Europe’s leading antitrust lawyers to discuss the Act following its adoption i...

In this episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Olivier Guersent, Director-General of the EC’s Directorate-General for Competition. Over a 30-year career at the EC, Olivier has been at the centre of antitrust enforcement and policy.  A former Director of Mergers and architect of the EC’s Leniency Program, he has served in the private offices of Commi...

In the fourth episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews Professor Eleanor M. Fox, who for 40 years has been one of the world’s most distinguished academic commentators on antitrust law and has played an instrumental role in bringing competition law to emerging markets.  Nick and Eleanor discuss U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, the EU’s n...

In the third episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy interviews John Fingleton CBE, former head of the Office of Fair Trading (now the CMA) and the Irish Competition Authority.  Among other things, Nick and John discuss the impact of Brexit on UK antitrust enforcement, the CMA’s emergence as one of the world’s most interventionalist competition agencies, and UK r...

In the second episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, a panel of Cleary Gottlieb partners discuss the achievements to date of European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager’s second term, including the landmark Digital Markets Act. Nick Levy, host of the podcast and partner at Cleary Gottlieb, is joined by three of Europe’s leading antitrust lawyers assessing the second term o...

In the first episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, we interview Andrea Coscelli CBE, outgoing chief executive of the UK Competition & Markets Authority. Nick Levy, host of the podcast and partner at Cleary Gottlieb, discusses Brexit, Big Tech, merger control, cartel enforcement, and much more with Andrea, who has been a transformational head at a significant time in the CMA’s...