Emerging Trends in Antitrust Enforcement: A Look Ahead
The concept of a free and open marketplace remains a priority under the Biden Administration as a broad-based effort is underway to revamp the focus of and manner in which antitrust enforcement is conducted. Neo-Brandeisian efforts to reform antitrust are driven by concerns that antitrust enforcement, guided by the concept of maximizing consumer welfare, has been too lax over the last 40 years.
The heads of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have expressed their intent to be substantially more aggressive in their antitrust enforcement efforts, across multiple fronts, including in mergers, monopolization, and restraints in labor markets. However, antitrust laws themselves have not changed (at least not yet). How more aggressive agency efforts may play out in court will be explored – for instance, recent results in various antitrust criminal trials concerning restraints in labor markets will be discussed.
This course offers an overview of the emerging trends and best practices with respect to antitrust enforcement. In a LIVE Webcast, a panel of thought leaders and practitioners will help firms and companies navigate the recent developments in this area of law.
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Managing Partner EconOne
Philip Johnson: An expert with extensive experience in the complex and sophisticated analyses required for antitrust, class action, and intellectual property matters. In his 18 years as a consultant, Dr. Johnson has written expert reports and testified regarding price fixing, monopolization, patent misuse, patent infringement, reasonable royalties, lost profits, and other analyses of complex data. He has analyzed class certification issues in major antitrust cases, including High Tech Employees, TFT-LCD, and CRT. His expertise in complex data analysis and class issues extends to employment matters. His work has encompassed a wide range of industries including various consumer goods, biotechnology, computer software, and computer hardware.
Managing Partner Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
Todd R. Seelman is the Managing Partner of the Denver office of Lewis Brisbois. He is the national chair of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice and also a member of the firm’s Lateral Recruiting Committee and Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Todd has over 30 years’ experience representing corporate clients in matters involving antitrust and competition, securities, and financial fraud. For the past 14 years, he has been an Adjunct Professor of Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.
Managing Director Berkeley Research Group, LLC
Cleve B. Tyler, PhD, is a managing director at Berkeley Research Group, LLC who specializes in applying economic analyses to antitrust, intellectual property, and damages issues. An economic consultant with nearly 25 years of experience, Dr. Tyler also teaches, writes, and speaks about competition and intellectual property topics. He has testified at deposition and trial in federal court, in state court, and at arbitration and has analyzed economic and damages issues across many industries such as waste collection and disposal, technology platforms, and enterprise software. Dr. Tyler is an adjunct professor of economics in Johns Hopkins University’s applied economics program, teaching graduate-level courses in industrial organization and microeconomics. He is an author of the book Assets and Finance: Calculating Intellectual Property Damages, published by Thomson-Reuters, and has publications on antitrust issues in Antitrust, Antitrust Bulletin, and Global Competition Review.
