AAI’s Diana Moss Joins Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy’s Panel Discussing the Newly Released Merger Guidelines

AAI’s Diana Moss joined Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy’s Georgetown on the Hill: Merger Guidelines for an in-depth discussion of the newly released draft Merger Guidelines. From the panel description:

The much-anticipated draft Merger Guidelines have been released by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. 

The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy is pleased to host this Georgetown on the Hill event designed to provide a first-look discussion of the proposed Merger Guidelines.  The event will inform academics, lawyers, businesspeople and the general public what is in the newly proposed guidelines, what changes have been made from the 2010 Guidelines, how the proposed changes may affect firms and markets, and their potential reception by the courts.
 
This event will include opening remarks from prominent members of the FTC and the Department of Justice, and a moderated panel discussion featuring antitrust experts from the legal and economic arenas.

Opening Remarks

• Aviv Nevo
  The George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor, University of Pennsylvania and current Director of the Bureau of Economics at the FTC
• David Lawrence
  Policy Director, Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice.

Moderators

• John Mayo
  Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair of Business Administration
  Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy
  Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
• Mark Whitener
  Senior Fellow, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy, and
  Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

Panelists

• Deborah Garza
  Partner, Rule, Garza and Howley
• Diana Moss
  President, American Antitrust Institute
• Howard Shelanski
  Joseph and Madeline Sheehy Chair in Antitrust Law and Trade
  Georgetown University Law Center