GCR Live: Competition Litigation 2011 brings together leading competition and litigation experts from the UK, other EU member states, Australia and the US who will provide practical guidance for potential claimants and defendants.

Topics will include:

• Funding for competition litigation
• Applicable law pre-Rome II
• Quantification of harm: DG Comp's new guidance
• Confidentiality
• Binding effect of agency decisions: relevance to standalone and follow-on actions
• Case study on injunctive relief
• Competition litigation: what does the future hold?

Chaired by John Pheasant, partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Speakers from the European Commission, the judiciary, law firms and industry include:

Daniel Beard QC, Monckton Chambers

Ingo Brinker, partner, Gleiss Lutz

Susan Dunn, head of litigation funding, Harbour Litigation Funding

Linda Evans, partner, Clayton Utz

Nicholas Green QC, Brick Court Chambers

Judge Nicholas Forwood, EU General Court

Phillip Haberman, Ernst & Young

Mark Hoskins QC, Brick Court Chambers

Stephen Kon, partner, SJ Berwin LLP

Jeroen Kortmann, partner, Stibbe

Anthony Maton, partner, Hausfeld LLP

Elizabeth Morony, partner, Clifford Chance LLP

Nicholas Heaton, partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Jon Lawrence, partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Michael Rowe, partner, Slaughter and May

Christian Vollrath, private enforcement unit, DG Competition, European Commission

Alan Wiseman, partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Professor George Yarrow, Emeritus Fellow, Hertford College, Oxford

Dr. Gunnar Niels, economist, Oxera

08:15 Registration & Coffee

09:00 Chairman’s introduction

09:15 Funding

• Third-party funding

• ATE insurance

• The Jackson Report on costs

• Contingency fees

• Implications for defendants

Anthony Maton, partner, Hausfeld LLP

Susan Dunn, head of litigation funding, Harbour Litigation Funding Ltd

Linda Evans, partner, Clayton Utz

10:00 Applicable law pre-Rome II

• For most current and foreseeable follow-on actions, the applicable law will be determined by the pre-Rome II rules

• How do these rules work?

• Are applicable law issues being raised and if not why not?

• What are the implications for claimants and defendants?

Daniel Beard QC, Monckton Chambers

Jeroen Kortmann, partner, Stibbe

Ingo Brinker, partner, Gleiss Lutz

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Quantification: The European Commission’s new guidance

Christian Vollrath, private enforcement unit, European Commission
Dr. Gunnar Niels, economist, Oxera

12:15 Confidentiality

• Protection of business secrets and confidential information by the commission

• Pergan

• Access to file documents

• Protection of leniency material

• Article 15: request of the commission

• Protecting confidentiality in damages claims

• Requests for documents under the Transparency Regulations

John Pheasant, partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Christian Vollrath, private enforcement unit, European Commission

Mark Hoskins QC, Brick Court Chambers

Alan Wiseman, senior of counsel, Covington & & Burling LLP

13:00 Lunch

14:15 The binding effect of DG Comp and national competition authority decisions: relevance to follow-on and stand-alone actions

• What binds whom?

• Ability to annul commission decisions

• Position of addressees

• Position of non-addressees

• The position of companies in the same group as the addressees

• Significance of operative part of the decision

• Significance of other findings in the recitals

• Emerson V Merson UK Portslade

Elizabeth Morony, partner, Clifford Chance LLP

Nicholas Heaton, partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Michael Rowe, partner, Slaughter and May

15:00 Tea

15:15 Case study on injunctive relief

• Stand-alone action

• Article 102 case:

• Dominance

• The role of the expert

• Adequacy of damages as a remedy

• The balance of convenience

• Role of the European Commission

Jon Lawrence, partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Stephen Kon, partner, SJ Berwin LLP

George Yarrow, economist

Philip Haberman, Ernst & Young

16:45 Competition litigation: What does the future hold?

• In which jurisdictions will cases be commenced?

• Contingency fees

• Collective redress

• The future of the CAT

Nicholas Green QC, Brick Court Chambers

Judge Nicholas Forwood, EU General Court

17:15 Q&A

17:30 Chairman’s summing-up and closing