WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2018 — The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law will host its fourth annual Merger Practice Workshop on Friday, Oct. 26, in San Francisco. The event will bring together leading enforcement officers from the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and private practitioners to discuss and demonstrate how critical decisions are made in a complex hypothetical merger of two competing high-tech companies being investigated in the U.S. and China.
What:
Antitrust Merger Practice Workshop
Sponsored by the ABA Section of Antitrust Law
When:
Friday, Oct. 26, 8:15 a.m.-5 p.m.
Where:
InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel
999 California Street
San Francisco, Calif. 94108
Highlighting the full day of programming that beings at 8:15 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m., will be a roundtable panel discussion from 11:15 a.m.-noon that features Bernard A. Nigro, deputy assistant attorney general from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C.; Kathleen E. Foote, senior assistant attorney general and antitrust chief from the California Department of Justice in San Francisco; and Dominique C. Alepin, assistant director, Federal Trade Commission in Los Angeles, Calif.
For a complete program highlights and a list of presenters, please click here.
This event is free and open to members of the press. For media credentialing, please contact Robert Robinson at Robert.Robinson@americanbar.org.
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