How Tech Shapes the Future of Antitrust: a Discussion with David Tudor and Neil Dryden

In this new episode, Neil Dryden (Compass Lexecon) is interviewing David Tudor (Prosus) on where we are and what is to come for tech antitrust. Video available on Concurrences Youtube channel If you would like to read about this topic, you can access the following Concurrences documents. If you do not have access, please inquire for Subscription. #1 DIGITAL REGULATIONS : AMERICAS, EU, UK & ASIA 1. Cary Coglianese, Alicia Lai, Algorithms and Competition in the Digital Economy, 5 October 2023 2. Omar Shah, Leonidas Theodosiou, Savas Manoussakis, Nina Jayne Carroll, The UK Competition Authority releases its initial AI foundation models report and the guiding principles for firms, 18 September 2023 3. Thibault Schrepel, Generative AI, pyramids and legal institutionalism, September 2023 4. Philip Marsden, UK Competition law & Digital markets: An overview of national case law, 13 July 2023 5. Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Peter Rowland, Jose Munoz, The EU Commission publishes the names of the companies that have declared that they meet the thresholds to qualify as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (Alphabet / Amazon / Apple / ByteDance / Meta / Microsoft...), 4 July 2023 6. Yannis Katsoulacos, Accelerating antitrust enforcement through the use of more presumption-based legal standards for the big-tech digital markets, May 2023 7. Nigel Parr, Anna Morfey, Christopher Eberhardt, Fiona Garside, The UK Government announces the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to introduce a wide range of reforms in the regulation of Big Tech, 25 April 2023 8. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ adds 9 State Attorneys General to its joint suit against a Big Tech company for monopolising digital advertising technologies (Google), 17 April 2023 9. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ, FTC, and EU Commission hold the third meeting of the EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue, 30 March 2023 10. Adam Acosta, Mark J. Gidley, George Paul, Gabriela Baca, Cassandra Calderon, Sandra González Sánchez, The US DoJ joins with the Latin American Competition Authorities to launch parallel investigations and enforcement actions involving alleged anticompetitive restrictions on digital products and in-app purchases, digital advertising, self-preferencing, and various exclusivity arrangements, 2 March 2023 #2 MERGER CONTROL & FDI 1. Nicole L. Castle, Jon B. Dubrow, Noah Feldman Greene, Gregory E. Heltzer, Joel R. Grosberg, Raymond Jacobsen, The US FTC and DOJ propose new draft Merger Guidelines which introduce substantial changes including reduction in the threshold for presuming competitive harm in horizontal mergers and a new structural presumption for vertical mergers, 19 July 2023 2. Craig A. Waldman, Aimee E. DeFilippo, Michael A. Gleason, Michael H. Knight, Jeremy P. Morrison, Pamela L. Taylor, Ryan C. Thomas, The US FTC and DOJ propose important changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for premerger filings, 29 June 2023 3. Gabrielle Kohlmeier, Jennifer E. Mellott, Meghan Rissmiller, Mergers in the telecommunications sector: An overview of EU and US case law, 29 June 2023 4. David M. Harrison, Sarah Wilks, Ruth Neligan, UK : Trends in merger control post-Brexit : Fresh out of the oven, May 2023 5. Nicholas Xenakis, Ryan K. Quillian, The US House of Representatives passes a legislative package updating legislation on antitrust, FDI and mergers, 29 September 2022 6. Marc Freedman, The UK Government publishes a report summarising FDI under the new screening regime, 16 June 2022 #3 DIGITAL COMPETITION ENFORCEMENT: IN-HOUSE COUNSEL PERSPECTIVES  1. European Commission, The EU Commission sends a Statement of Objection to a Big Tech company over abusive practices in online advertising technology (Google ad tech), 14 June 2023 2. Ronan Scanlan, The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal announces the receipt of an application to review the Competition Authority’s decision to prohibit the acquisition