Anderson moderates panel of Antitrust agency leaders on big data and cartels at Annual ICN Conference

Brussels office Managing Partner Dave Anderson will join officials from more than 140 antitrust agencies from around the world and their non-governmental advisers (NGA) at the first-ever virtual ICN Annual Conference, Sept. 14-17. The event will highlight the most pressing issues affecting antitrust and competition law in 2020, with a special focus on the digital economy.

Anderson’s practice at BCLP focuses on EU and international antitrust aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, cartels, commercial agreements and abuses of dominant positions. In addition, he is an NGA for the European Commission. 

He has been asked by the ICN’s Cartel Working Group (CWG) to lead a plenary panel discussion at the conference on “Big Data and Cartelization” featuring agency heads and senior officials from the French, Italian, U.S., Russian and Greek antitrust agencies. The panel will consider the benefits and antitrust risks that can arise when big data and algorithms are used by companies and how agencies and the private sector are looking at enforcement and compliance in this new area of the digital economy. 

Hosts for this year’s ICN Annual Conference are the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The virtual format will be supplemented by a series of additional sessions linked to the main conference but taking place later this year.

Watch the video of the event, with Anderson’s session starting at 1:35:45.