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Seventh EU Competition Law Conference

Event | 10.08.26, 8:30 AM CEST - 4:45 PM CEST

Address

De Warande, Rue Zinner 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

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We are delighted to invite you to the Seventh EU Competition Law Conference, hosted by Crowell & Moring, King's College London, and The Competition Law Center at George Washington University. This year's conference offers an authoritative and comparative Europe–US perspective on the latest developments in competition law. We will look at what’s on the horizon for enforcement, particularly in relation to digital markets, the impact of AI, the growing economic and political pressures and what this means for regulators and businesses.

8 October 2026 at De Warande, Brussels
Programme

8:30

Doors and Registration

  

9:05

Welcome

  

9:15

Keynote: Mark Meador, Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission

  

9:45

Panel 1: The Invisible Cartel: Detecting and Prosecuting Technology-Enabled Coordination

 

Panel Chair: Alison Jones, Professor of Law, King's College London

 

Andreas Stephan, Professor of Competition Law, University of East Anglia

 

Renato Nazzini, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution at King’s College London

 

Jason Murray, Partner, Crowell & Moring

  

11:00

Coffee

  

11:30

Panel 2: Gatekeeper, Monopolist, or Dominant? Unilateral Conduct in a Complex Regulatory Landscape

 

Panel Chair: Thomas De Meese, Partner, Crowell & Moring

 

Damien Gerard, Prosecutor General at the Belgian Competition Authority

 

Geneviève Borremans, Senior Legal Counsel Competition Law at Euroclear

 

Liza Lovdahl-Gormsen, Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law

 

Andy Gavil, Senior of Counsel, Crowell & Moring

  

12:45

Buffet Lunch

  

14:00

Panel 3: The Dealmaker's Dilemma: Navigating a New Era of Merger Scrutiny

 

Panel Chair: Marieke Van Nieuwenborgh, Partner, Crowell & Moring

 

Annemiek Wilpshaar, Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission 

 

Anne-Claire Hoyng, Global Head of Competition Policy at Prosus Group

 

Peter Broadhurst, Partner, Crowell & Moring

 

Rebecca Valentine, Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division

  

15:15

Coffee

  

15:45

Fireside Chat: From Rules to Reality: What Comes Next for Digital Markets?

 

Panel Chairs: Bill Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy, George Washington University Law School; Andy Gavil, Senior of Counsel, Crowell & Moring, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law

 

Lucia Bonova, Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission 

 

Mike Walker, Professor in Practice at Durham University Business School

  

16:45

Closing Remarks

 Please note that the programme may still be subject to changes.


Questions
For questions about this event, please contact Manuela Dilen.

For more information, please visit these areas: Antitrust and Competition, Antitrust and Competition — Brussels Practice, Brussels Practice, Corporate — Brussels Practice, Regulatory — Brussels Practice

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