Elaine Johnston: Welcome back. Our second panel this morning has been organized by our Monopolization and Big Tech Committee, and it’s going to look at the highly topical issue of zero-price markets. With that, let me turn this over to our moderator, Antonio Capobianco. Antonio is the deputy head of the OECD competition division. Antonio, we’re … Continued
Simone Smith: Well, good morning, everybody. And welcome to this morning’s program, which is the Antitrust Law Section virtual Annual Meeting day one. The CLE portion today will run from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., which is followed by a business meeting. To the attendees, please note that you must remain on the line for the … Continued
Ben Sirota: We may not have the University Club, which was what we did historically, but we have all of you. So thank you for joining. We’re very excited to be with you tonight. Just a couple of housekeeping notes, if people could turn on their cameras where possible, this is really designed to be an … Continued
Elaine Johnston: I’m going to give people just one more minute, since . . . okay, we’re now at 11:40. Welcome back, everyone. Our final panel today has been organized by our Diversity and Membership committees, and looks at the extremely interesting issue of whether antitrust laws can, or for that matter should, be used to … Continued
Bill Baer: Good to see you too, Elaine. And thanks to the New York State Bar Association for putting up with me for yet another year. We’ve got a great topic today. What I thought I’d do is set the stage and then introduce our distinguished panelists. As many of you know, over the years the … Continued
Speaker 1: Okay, ready whenever you are, Elaine. Elaine Johnston: Okay. I think we’ll give people just a minute or two. I just want to make sure we’ve got all our panelists. Speaker 1: No problem. Bruce Hoffman: Hi, Elaine. Elaine Johnston: Welcome back. I spend a lot of my time in the merger world and I have to say … Continued
Peter Herrick: Thank you, Elaine, for the introduction, and to the New York State Bar Association for putting on another great program as always, and for having us here today. I’m going to go ahead and share my screen. Hopefully this will work. Okay. As everyone in this audience is no doubt aware, antitrust is in … Continued
Simone Smith: Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome to this morning’s program, which is the Antitrust Law Section Virtual Annual Meeting, Day 2. Today’s program will run from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This program is co-sponsored by the Antitrust Law Section and the Committee on Continuing Legal Education of the New York State Bar Association. … Continued
Benjamin Sirota: As chair, I run the meeting where the new chair gets voted in. So we have a really short business meeting today. We’ll have you out of here before 1:00 very comfortably, and we have a new bylaw change that we want to get voted on, the traditional Nominating Committee report, and then at the … Continued
Elai Katz: Thank you, Elaine. And thank you also to Ben. Welcome everyone. Welcome to this year’s Antitrust Developments panel. As many of you know, we don’t try to cover all developments in the world of antitrust. Bill Lifland was able to do that, but if I tried, we’d be here all weekend. Instead we picked … Continued