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Antitrust

Recorded on: Dec. 12, 2012

JOSEPH YANG: Thanks, Bob. Lots of great practical tips about the licensing in Europe. So one of last topics that Bob mentioned was competition law. That's the European term for antitrust law. So that's actually a perfect segue into our next segment. And Jose Esteves, to my right, is going to be speaking to us on antitrust law. Jose is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom-- and my old colleague-- in its New York office, where he focuses ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

YVONNE S. QUINN: And because we don't give you a moment to breathe right, we're going to move right on to our next program which is to give you sort of a run through, in an hour, of what US antitrust lawyers and their clients need to know about international antitrust. And this panel is going to be handled by Juan Rodriguez, who is an English solicitor who specializes in EU competition law, and also does a lot of work on Rest of the World merger ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

YVONNE S. QUINN: And now we don't give you a moment's rest-- on we go! We're going to move into the mergers section now and talk about a topic, for those of you who are a corporation, sooner or later, you will probably have some kind of an acquisition or merger in your practice. And there are some handouts. Anybody raise their hands if they don't have one and we'll get them to you, so if you want to scribble on them, or whatever, you'll be able to ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Can we start? We're ready to go? SEEMA LAL MEEHAN: You're ready. HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Oh, ready. Good morning. Welcome back to the second day of the Antitrust Law Institute. My name is Harvey Saferstein. I'm from Los Angeles, so I'm half asleep. But I was in DC yesterday, so I should have adjusted to the time by now. But here I am. Yesterday, you learned a lot of substantive antitrust law, and today we're going to teach you a little ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: This is a new something for us here. This is the first year we've done this portion of the program, which is Sports Law. We figure that sounds pretty exciting. And to be the moderator for that, we have Bob Boland, who's a professor of law at NYU. And he teaches in the area of sports law with my old buddy, Arthur Miller, a sports law program at NYU Law School. With him on the panel or two distinguished practitioners who also do antitrust ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

HON. J. THOMAS ROSCH: Well, as I say, I'm very pleased to introduce Dan Swanson, who is not only a Ph.D. economist but also a very fine antitrust lawyer. Dan was not at Gibson Dunn when I was there many, many years ago. But his mentor, who was Bob Cooper, was there and has been on the faculty in San Francisco for many years. And before that, I think Bob's mentor was Kali von Kalinowski, who was a wonderful mentor, as well. So Dan, you come very well-represented. ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

YVONNE QUINN: All right. Welcome back. I'm the guilty one who didn't give you a big enough break. So you get to munch all through this session. I'm very pleased to introduce our next panel. This is a-- Part of the panel, any of you who have been here before, that we instituted just last year. And we thought it was very successful. And we've stuck with it again this year. And this is a panel where we've got three really expert antitrust litigators. ...

Recorded on: May. 8, 2012

J. THOMAS ROSCH: You're not going to need any introduction to our initial speakers, but I'll introduce them anyway. Saul Morgenstern is the chairman of the antitrust practice group at Kaye Scholer and has been instrumental in authoring what I hope each of you have, Antitrust Law Developments 7th, which is an absolute bible of antitrust law. And I've got to tell you that I use it all the time, and I hope that you do as well. Bob Taylor preceded me ...

Recorded on: Feb. 25, 2012

WILLIAM TANENBAUM: So we're going to go. So I'm now going to introduce the next panel. And the next panel is focusing on two areas. One is contractual documents and key contract provisions. And the second one is on the emerging antitrust issues. I'd like to introduce the two speakers who will address these issues. First, I'm very pleased to introduce my partner, Madeleine Tan, who will address the contractual documents subject matter. Madeleine ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

TOM ROSCH: OK, I'd appreciate it if everybody who's in the hallway would come on back in and once again, welcome to our internet audience. And we have another super star with us this afternoon to discuss mergers and acquisitions with us. His name is Scott Sher and he's a partner in the Washington, DC office of Wilson and Sonsini. I personally dealt with him in connection in the Google double click matter a little bit earlier. Or actually, it was I ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

SPEAKER 1: which is most important for our purposes today. He started out as a patent examiner when he was in law school back in Washington, and that, I think, puts him squarely at the intersection of antitrust on the one hand, and technology on the other. Very few people have those special skills. He was the chair of the antitrust section. He was a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been for many, many years. He was the chair ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

TOM RAUCH: OK. Well there's a little bit of background on this final panel today. We were all in San Francisco this last summer. And Steve and Joseph Alioto were the debaters. And Brendan was the moderator of the panel that discussed American Needle. And frankly, it was a spectacular panel. It was really a great debate. And a really fine panel. So what we are going to do this afternoon is the following. We had four topics that we were going to discuss. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

TOM: OK, would everybody who is outside please come on in? I'd appreciate that. And once again, I'd like to welcome those of you who are participating by the internet, we appreciate it very much. I told you at the outset we were going to have an all-star cast today and we certainly do. The second presenter on Section 2 is going to be Bob Cooper. And who better to talk about the law of single firm conduct than Bob? Bob has represented Sempra Energy ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: She's not going to talk to you about something that you got a little bit of an introduction to in our last panel, which is international antitrust law. And what you need to know about it is we entered into this more global economy and more global antitrust enforcement where you're not dealing just with the enforcement agency. You just saw but with the EC, with Korea, Japan, South America now, you name it. So we'll give about 30 ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

THOMAS ROSCH: Thanks very much. [APPLAUSE] Well, since she's walking up here right now, I'll introduce Holly House, with whom I had the pleasure of working for a number of years over at McCuthen when I first started out. And Holly was, I think, a first year associate at that time. Weren't you Holly? But in any event-- HOLLY A. HOUSE: Just a couple of years ago. THOMAS ROSCH: Yeah. She also has a distinguished career. She's been particularly active ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

HARVEY I. SAFERSTEIN: Welcome back. I'm sorry for the short break. We haven't had this much spirited discussion of Robinson-Patman. It must be the recession, it's brought it back. So people are still arguing unfair discrimination under the Robinson-Patman Act. But we now have a brand new panel that we started last year in this series because consumer protection was becoming more and more important part of what we as antitrust lawyers were seen in ...

Recorded on: Feb. 22, 2011

HARVEY SAFERSTEIN: Good morning. Welcome back for the second day of the Antitrust Institute. Yesterday was pretty interesting, and today is going to get more exciting. And I'm glad you're all back. Today, we're going to go through a number of issues, some substantive, but many enforcement and procedural. At the end of the day, we've got a speaker on ethics and compliance for corporate governance. We have an international section. And then we have ...

Recorded on: Jan. 27, 2011

SPEAKER 1: We'll move on again. The next speaker is Eric Simonson. He's a partner at K&L Gates. He's a seasoned M&A practitioner. He's been speaking on the program for a number of years. And he's going to be speaking about various specialized areas of concern applicable to the transaction. ERIC SIMONSON: Thank you very much, Rich. A bit of a warning, I have a bit of a cold, so if I go into a sneezing or coughing fit or my voice fails me, ...