Antitrust Review

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, indus...

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.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Gail Slater, former Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the objectives of antitrust law, the conservative case for vigorous antitrust enforcement, merger control, political lobbying, digital r...

In the latest episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Bjarne Tellmann, CEO of FjordStream Advisors and author of Law in the Era of AI: Clients, Firms, and the Future of the Legal Industry . Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including innovation and digital transformation in the legal industry, how AI is set to reshape the provision of lega...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Mike Walker, the CMA’s former Chief Economist. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including Mike’s 30-year career, his decade at the CMA, the evolution of economics and economists in EU and UK antitrust enforcement, merger control, digital regulation, and China, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the first year of Teresa Ribera’s term as EU Competition Commissioner: Peter Guilford of Shearwater, Barbara Moens of the Financial Times, Lewis Crofts of MLex, and Javier Espinoza of Capitol Forum. Their conversation covers the Draghi Report, merger control, digital re...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Anu Bradford, Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the Biden Presidency’s legacy, antitrust enforcement and merger control under President Trump, the future of the EU, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel of lawyers from Cleary Gottlieb’s U.S. competition practice, including former officials of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, to discuss the first year of President Trump’s second Administration. Together, they discuss the legacy of the Biden Presidency, explain U.S. ant...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel of lawyers from Cleary Gottlieb’s global competition practice to review the major developments of 2025 and look forward to 2026. Their conversation covers merger control, antitrust enforcement, and digital regulation in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Belgium, Netherlands,...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Rory Stewart, one of the UK’s leading political commentators. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the state of the world, the UK, US, EU, and China, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Oliver Bethell, who leads Google’s Competition, Regulatory Engagement, and Advisory Team.  Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including antitrust enforcement against Big Tech, digital regulation, AI, merger control, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Pierre Régibeau, DG COMP’s former Chief Competition Economist. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the role of economics in antitrust enforcement, the Draghi Report, merger control, industrial policy, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel of experts from Cleary Gottlieb’s EU competition practice to discuss the Commission’s review of the Merger Guidelines following the Draghi Report. Their conversation covers the array of topics raised by the review, including competitiveness and resilience, the assessment of market power, eff...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Mario Monti, former Competition Commissioner and Prime Minister of Italy. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the EU’s future, the threat to liberal democracy, the objectives of antitrust enforcement, the Draghi Report, merger control, the politicization of antitrust, an...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Joel Bamford, Executive Director for Mergers at the Competition & Markets Authority.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the agency’s response to the UK Government’s strategic steer, the CMA’s merger review process, reforms to the CMA’s remedies policy, international co...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Hiroo Iwanari, Secretary-General of the Japanese Fair Trade Commission.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the objectives of Japanese antitrust enforcement, the role of industrial policy, merger control, cartel enforcement, sustainability, digital regulation, and much more...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by John Fingleton, Andrea Coscelli and Marcus Bokkerink, three former heads of the UK competition agency. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the future of UK antitrust enforcement, merger control, political independence, digital regulation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Teresa Ribera, the European Commission’s Executive Vice-President for a Clean, Just, and Competitive Transition.  Their conversation, held in front of a live audience in New York at the Fordham Corporate Law Institute’s 52nd Annual Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy, covers an...

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Guillaume Loriot, the EC’s Head of Mergers. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including EU merger control following Illumina/GRAIL , the consumer welfare standard, the Draghi Report, the role of innovation, the EC’s Merger Guidelines, international cooperation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a group of economists and lawyers to discuss one of the most interesting questions in contemporary EU merger control – the role of innovation and the circumstances in which an otherwise anti-competitive merger should be approved because of its projected positive effect on investment and innovation....

In this instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Olivier Guersent, Director General of DG COMP. Their conversation covers a wide array of topics, including the EU’s future, the role of antitrust enforcement, the Draghi Report, merger control, digital regulation, international cooperation, and much more.

In the latest instalment of our Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Cani Fernández, President of the Spanish Competition Authority. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the role of competition law, the Draghi Report, merger control, cartel enforcement, sustainability, digital regulation, and much more.