AAI Experts Join the Concurrences-GW Law 10th (2022) Bill Kovacic Antitrust Salon

AAI’s Diana Moss and Laura Alexander will appear on panels at the Concurrences-GW Law 10th Bill Kovacic Antitrust Salon. The event, to be held in-person at the George Washington University Law School, is scheduled for September 12, 2022. The salon will feature opening remarks, discussion, and three panels. Diana Moss will join the panel: #2 Labor Markets: Where are the Antitrust Concerns? Laura Alexander will join the panel #3 Antitrust and Price Equity in the Biden Administration. 

The panel descriptions are below:

#2 Labor Markets: Where are the Antitrust Concerns?

In the US, the antitrust agencies are taking an aggressive position towards practices that affect labour markets, including an unfavourable view of non-solicitation and non-compete agreements. However, recent decisions in criminal wage-fixing and no-poach cases where juries have decided to acquit, have raised questions about the effectiveness of such enforcement.

Rosa ABRANTES-METZ | PhD and Principal Co-Chair, The Brattle Group, New York

Benjamin HARRIS | Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U. S. Department of Treasury, Arlington

Anna MEYENDORFF | Partner and Professor of Economics, Bates White | UC Berkley, Washington D.C.

Diana L. MOSS | President, American Antitrust Institute, Washington D.C.

Maureen OHLHAUSEN | Partner, Baker Botts, Washington D.C.

Andrew SCHUPANITZ | Trial Attorney for the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, San Francisco

Moderator : Alexander OKULIAR | Co-chair Global Antitrust Law, Morrison & Foerster, Washington D.C.

#3 Antitrust and Private Equity in the Biden Administration

The Biden administration is seeking to crack down on private equity to prevent it from “rolling up” large swathes of US businesses. In this context, the DOJ and FTC want to introduce a more robust assessment of private equity transactions, with a particular focus on situations where companies are engaged in corporate roll-ups. The questions now arise as to whether more aggressive enforcement is called for and how, in practice, the antitrust agencies will implement such a robust assessment.

Laura ALEXANDER | Vice President of Policy, American Antitrust Institute, Washington D.C.

Sabrina HOWELL | Associate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern, New York

Bilal SAYYED | Senior Competition Counsel, Techfreedom, Washington D.C.

Moderator : Jack E. PACE | Partner, White & Case, New York