Managing Litigation and Business Risk
In Multi-Jurisdiction Antitrust Matters
A Practical Seminar for In-House Counsel of Multi-National Businesses
Presented by
Hogan & Hartson
and Competition Policy Associates
Hogan & Hartson and Competition Policy Associates (COMPASS) are pleased to present Managing Litigation and Business Risk in Multi-Jurisdiction Antitrust Matters, a full-day seminar intended for in-house counsel of multi-national businesses. Leading legal and economic practitioners will discuss how to deal effectively and efficiently with multi-jurisdiction antitrust investigations of mergers and competition cases and related litigation, share best practices in civil litigation in both the U.S. and abroad, and explore the practical implications of recent developments in merger cases in the U.S. and abroad. A reception at the offices of Hogan & Hartson will follow the day's events.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
8:30 am – 5:30 pm EDT
Waldorf=Astoria Hotel
New York, NY
To register online for this event, please click here.
Program Agenda
The morning program will be chaired by David Leitch, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Ford Motor Company, with a key note address from The Honorable J. Thomas Rosch, Federal Trade Commission. The afternoon program will be chaired by Stephen Juge, Deputy General Counsel, Gemalto. The program combines presentations, panel discussions and practical concurrent workshops.
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When registering, please select the workshops you wish to attend.
About the Speakers
David Leitch
David G. Leitch is General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Ford Motor Company. Prior to his position at Ford, Mr. Leitch served as the Deputy Counsel and Deputy Assistant to the President.
From June 2001 through December 2002, he served as Chief Counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration, overseeing a staff of 290 in Washington and the agency's 11 regional offices. He is also a past Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel.
Leitch's law career includes serving as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, and as a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hogan & Hartson, LLP. Leitch is a graduate of the University of Virginia, School of Law, and Duke University.
J. Thomas Rosch
J. Thomas Rosch was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission January 5, 2006, to a term that expires in September 2012.
Rosch joined the FTC from the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, where he was the former managing partner and most recently a partner, working in the firm’s antitrust and trade practices group. Rosch served as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section in 1990, and he has chaired the California Bar Association’s Antitrust Section. He served as Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection from 1973 to 1975, and in 1989 was a member of the ABA's Special Committee to Study the Role of the FTC.
Nationally regarded for his antitrust and trade regulation law expertise, he has been lead counsel in more than 100 federal and state court antitrust cases and has more than 40 years experience before the Bar. In 2003, Rosch was honored as Antitrust Lawyer of the Year by the California State Bar Antitrust Section. He obtained his LLB from Harvard University in 1965 and was a Knox Fellow at Cambridge in 1962.
Stephen Juge
Stephen Juge has been Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Company Secretary of Gemalto N.V. (business combination of Gemplus International S.A. and Axalto Holding N.V., former smart card division of Schlumberger) since its creation in June 2006. Mr. Juge joined Gemplus in November 2000 at Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Prior to joining Gemplus, Mr. Juge served from January to October 2000 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Walt Disney Europe. From April 1996 to January 2000, Mr. Juge served as Senior Vice President and European Legal Counsel of The Walt Disney Company (Europe) S.A. From November 1987 to March 1996, Mr. Juge served as Vice President and General Counsel of the Disneyland Resort Paris (Euro Disney S.C.A.). Prior to joining Disneyland Resort Paris, Mr. Juge was an associate at the international law firm of Coudert Freres in Paris between 1981 and 1987.
Mr. Juge attended Louisiana State University, received a Juris Doctor degree from the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans and studied comparative law at the University of Oxford on a Marshall Foundation Fellowship.
Speakers from Hogan & Hartson, COMPASS, & Financial Dynamics
Speakers and participants from Hogan & Hartson and COMPASS include:
- Sandy Litvack, former head of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
- Jan McDavid, former Chair of the Antitrust Section of the ABA
- John Pheasant and Catriona Hatton, co-chairs of Hogan & Hartson’s European antitrust practice
- Dr. Janusz Ordover, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
- Margaret Guerin-Calvert, former Assistant Chief of the Economic Regulatory Section at the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
- Robert Willig former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.
- Harlan Loeb is US Director of Financial Dynamics' Litigation Practice. He has counseled dozens of FORTUNE 500 companies involved in high-profile or high-stakes litigation and crises, including Motorola, HP, Allstate, and Manpower.
To see full Hogan & Hartson Antitrust Team, please click here.
To see full COMPASS Team, please click here.
About Hogan & Hartson
With more than 1,000 lawyers practicing in 22 offices worldwide, we work seamlessly across multiple practices and offices to provide our clients with exceptional service and creative advice. Working at the intersection of business and government, both domestically and internationally, we help our clients structure and complete their projects and transactions; vigorously represent their interests in all kinds of complex litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution; guide them and their businesses through the maze of government regulation; and secure, protect, and defend their intellectual property. Because our clients’ success and satisfaction are paramount goals for all Hogan & Hartson lawyers, our teams create a working experience that evolves into enduring relationships.
More at www.hhlaw.com.
About Competition Policy Associates
Competition Policy Associates (COMPASS) is an economics consulting firm specializing in financial and economic analysis of policy, regulatory, and litigation matters for corporations, governments and public-sector entities in the United States and worldwide. COMPASS combines the expertise and practices of the five founding directors (Margaret Guerin-Calvert, Janusz Ordover, Jonathan Orszag, Peter Orszag, and Robert Willig) with outstanding research and support capabilities on a wide range of antitrust, regulatory and economic policy matters. The firm has extensive experience in academics, senior government positions, and consultancies with strong analytical capabilities, testifying and advisory experience, and a thorough understanding of how governments operate. The directors of COMPASS have been engaged by private parties from small businesses to multi-national Fortune 500 companies, and by local, national and international public-sector organizations.
More at www.competitionpolicy.com.
To register online for this event, please click here.
Note to Attorneys: This program is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.
CLE credit is available
for participants.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
please contact Lacey Blue
by phone at +1.202.637.6853
or by e-mail at lablue@hhlaw.com.
Please RSVP by
Wednesday, October 10, 2007.