S&C antitrust lawyer Renata Hesse will speak at the American Bar Association's 68th Annual Antitrust Law Virtual Spring Meeting, to be held online from April 17 to May 1, 2020. This conference will bring together leading global practitioners and experts in competition, consumer protection, and data privacy law for a series of virtual programming on all the latest issues in antitrust. All content from the conference will be available free of charge at the conference website.
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Panel: Hot Topics (April 28, 12:00 p.m. ET)
Renata will moderate a discussion on the top issues in antitrust over the past year, and how they have shaped the news of today and trends of tomorrow. Video of the panel will be released through the conference website.
Participants in the discussion include Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter; Olivier Guersent, Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition; Google senior vice president Kent Walker; and D. Bruce Hoffman of Cleary Gottlieb. Brian Grube of Jones Day will co-moderate.
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Renata Hesse
Renata Hesse is a leading antitrust lawyer who is co-head of the Firm’s Antitrust Practice and a member of its Intellectual Property and Technology Litigation Practice. Her practice focuses on antitrust counseling, cartels and merger clearance, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property matters in high-tech industries. She has been recognized by The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers, Chambers USA for Antitrust, and Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation on its list of the “Top 250 Women in Litigation” and as a “Local Litigation Star.”
Renata joined Sullivan & Cromwell following a distinguished career in government. In addition to her abovementioned work at the DOJ, she was also Chief of the Networks and Technology Section (now the Technology and Financial Services Section) and had oversight of the criminal program as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General. In addition, she served as Senior Counsel to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, where she advised on transactions pending FCC approval.
She is the International Officer of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section and is a frequent speaker at antitrust and legal forums in the USA and abroad. Her latest engagements include participation in a panel on competition law in Brussels and on a panel at the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Law and Corporate Counsel Section.