23rd St.GallenInternational Competiton Law Forum

St.Gallen, May 19th and 20th 2016

Program

19 May 2016

09:00 - 09:05 Welcome

09:05 - 10:00 The EU competition law system: Where lies its center of gravity?

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:15 Commitments and settlements – benefits and risks

Lunch (Pfalzkeller)

13:45 - 15:30 The future of competition law – is politics taking over?

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 Competition economics today

18:30 - 22:30 Dinner with special event at Hotel Einstein

Carl Baudenbacher

Presider: HeikeSchweitzer

Presider: Kai-UweKühn

Presider: Peter Freeman

ThomasCheng

ThomasHoehn

AlexeiIspolinov

AndreaLofaro

Ulrich Soltész

HowardRosenblatt

CatrionaMunro

CélineGauer

Frank P. Maier-Rigaud

Presider: FranzHoffet

Marcvan der Woude

Program

20 May 2016

09:00 - 10:45 Presidents’ Breakfast: Competition among enforcers – desirable or detrimental?

Coffee break

11:15 - 12:45 Restriction of competition by object or effect

Lunch (Pfalzkeller)

14:15 - 15:45 In-house counsel’s tea-time – mergers and more

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 Finale: Quo vadis Swiss cartel law?

17:00 - 17:10 Farewell

Presider: Romina Polley

CarlBaudenbacher

Vincent Martenet

Presider: Marino Baldi

Presider: Patrick Sommer

Presider: HannoWollmann

AndreasMundt

Nicolas Birkhäuser

Juhani Kostka

Andreas Heinemann

Bruno Lasserre

Dan Sjoblom

Renata Jungo Brüngger*

Christof von Dryander

RetoJacobs

Presider: FrankMontag

Ingeborg Simonsson

MarcelMeinhardt

WolfgangKirchhoff

* to be confirmed

Speakers & Presiders

Berne

Marino Baldi

Senior Counsel, Prager Dreifuss

Luxembourg/ St.Gallen

Carl Baudenbacher

President, EFTA Court; Chair, St.Gallen ICF

Zurich

Nicolas Birkhäuser

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Niederer Kraft & Frey

Hong Kong

Thomas Cheng

Professor, University of Hong Kong

Frankfurt

Christof von Dryander

General Counsel, Deutsche Bank

London

Peter Freeman

Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal; Former

Chairman, UK Competition Commission

Brussels

Céline Gauer

Director Energy and Environment,

DG Competition, European Commission

Zurich

Andreas HeinemannProfessor of Commercial,

Economic and European Law, University of Zurich UZH;

Vice-President, Swiss Competition Commission

Speakers & Presiders

London

Thomas Hoehn

Senior Advisor, Mazars UK; Managing Director, ATRx; Visiting Professor, Imperial

College London

Zurich

Franz Hoffet

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Homburger

Moscow

Alexei Ispolinov

Professor and Head of International Law

Department, Moscow State University

Zurich

Reto Jacobs

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Walder Wyss

Stuttgart

Renata Jungo Brüngger

Vice President & General Counsel, Daimler

Karlsruhe

Wolfgang Kirchhoff

Judge, German Federal Court

Zurich

Juhani Kostka

Senior Legal Counsel and Head Competition Law,

Holcim

Norwich

Kai-Uwe KühnProfessor of Economics and

Deputy Director of the Center for Competition

Policy, University of East Anglia

Speakers & Presiders

Berlin

Frank P. Maier-Rigaud

Director and Head European Competition Economics

Group, NERA

Berne

Vincent Martenet

President, Swiss Competition

Commission

Zurich

Marcel Meinhardt

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Lenz & Staehelin

Paris

Bruno Lasserre

President, French Competition

Authority

London

Andrea Lofaro

Consultant, RBB Economics

Brussels

Johannes Laitenberger

Director-General, DG Competition, European

Commission

Speakers & Presiders

Brussels

Frank Montag

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Freshfields

Bonn

Andreas Mundt

President, German Federal Cartel Office

Glasgow

Catriona Munro

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Maclay Murray & Spens

Cologne

Romina Polley

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Cleary Gottlieb Steen &

Hamilton

Brussels

Howard Rosenblatt

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Latham & Watkins

Berlin

Heike SchweitzerProfessor, Institute for German and European

Economic Law and Competition Law,

Freie Universität Berlin

Speakers & Presiders

Vienna

Hanno Wollmann

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Schoenherr

Luxembourg/ Rotterdam

Marc van der Woude

Judge, General Court of the European Union;

Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Zurich

Patrick Sommer

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, CMS von Erlach Poncet

Brussels

Ulrich Soltész

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Gleiss Lutz

Stockholm

Ingeborg Simonsson

Judge, Stockholm City Court;

Associate Professor, Stockholm University

Stockholm

Dan Sjoblom

Director General, Swedish Competition Authority

Advisory Board

Brussels

Carles Esteva Mosso

Deputy Director-General Mergers, DG Competition,

EU Commission

London

Peter Freeman

Chairman, Competition Appeal Tribunal; Former

Chairman, UK Competition Commission

Berne

Vincent Martenet

President, Swiss Competition

Commission

Cologne

Romina Polley

Advisory Board Chair

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, Cleary Gottlieb Steen &

Hamilton

Karlsruhe/ Freiburg

Joachim BornkammFormer President of

Chamber, German Federal Supreme Court;

Honorary Professor, University of Freiburg

Paris

Eric Morgan de Rivery

Of Counsel and Attorney-at-Law, Jones Day

Brussels

Sven Norberg

Senior Adviser, Kreab; Former Director, DG Competition, EU Commission

Zurich

Patrick Sommer

Partner and Attorney-at-Law, CMS von Erlach Poncet

Chair & Conference Team

Luxembourg/ St.Gallen

Carl Baudenbacher

Chair St.Gallen ICF

President, EFTA Court

Cambridge, MA/ St.Gallen

Alexander GöbelExecutive Director St.Gallen ICF

Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School; Research and Teaching Fellow, CC EIL, University of

St.Gallen HSG

St.Gallen

Franziska Moll

Academic Coordinator, E.M.B.L.-HSG, University of St.Gallen HSG;

Research Fellow, CC EIL, University of St.Gallen HSG

St.Gallen

Tirza Amacker

Administrative Coordinator, E.M.B.L.-HSG, University of

St.Gallen HSG

Vienna / St.Gallen

Lisa Schwarz

Research Fellow, CC EIL, University of St.Gallen

HSG

Information

Participation FeeThe participation fee is CHF 1’500,- (CHF 900,- for one day) per person including electronic documentation, refreshments during conference breaks, lunches on Thursday and Friday as well as the conference dinner on Thursday.

Please note that the registration is binding and that the participation fee is payable within ten days upon confirmation of registration. However, the participation fee is refunded in full, if a written cancellation is received till up to three weeks before the conference date (at the latest by April 28th 2016). For cancellations received after this date, no refund can be made, however, a replacement participant can be named. Early registration is recommended, as the conference sold out in recent years.

Companies sending several participants (two and more) can benefit from a discount of ten percent on the participation fees. This discount cannot be combined with other offers.

Special discounts are also available for Ph.D. students, academics and members of the media. Please inquire with us.

Hotel ReservationsThe conference team will gladly assist with hotel reservations and several hotel options are available during the online registration.

VenueThe St.Gallen International Competition Law Forum will take place in the St.Gallen “Kantonsratssaal” (Parliament of the Canton of St.Gallen). Lunches are served at the “Pfalzkeller” and the conference dinner will be held at the “Einsteinsaal” of Hotel Einstein.

For more information, visit the conference webpage at

www.sg-icf.ch.

Map & Directions

KantonsratssaalKlosterhof 39000 St.Gallen

Hotel DomWebergasse 229000 St.Gallen+41 / 71 / 227 71 71

Hotel RadissonSt. Jakob Strasse 559000 St.Gallen+41 / 71 / 242 12 12

Pfalzkeller – Lunches Klosterhof 39000 St.Gallen

Hotel EinsteinBerneggstrasse 29000 St.Gallen+41 / 71 / 227 55 55

Hotel WalhallaPoststrasse 279001 St.Gallen+41 / 71 / 228 28 00

Einsteinsaal – Dinner ThursdayHotel EinsteinBerneggstrasse 29000 St.Gallen © Nokia & Microsoft

(A) Kantonsratssaal (B) Einsteinsaal – Dinner Thursday (C) Pfalzkeller – Lunches

Executive Master of European and International Business Law E.M.B.L.-HSG

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• 18-month part-time program • Transfer of solid generalist knowledge and skills in European and

international business law • For lawyers & non-lawyers• Teaching language: English • 9 modules, 9 different program locations in Europe, the U.S. and Asia • Academic title ‹Executive Master of European and International

Business Law E.M.B.L.-HSG›

Program start: 13 June 2016 Application deadline: 15 May 2016

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Impressions

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Registration is available online at www.sg-icf.ch.

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Tigerbergstrasse 9 CH-9000 St.Gallen

Phone: +41 / 71 / 224 26 15 E-mail: contact@sg-icf.ch

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