On March 30, 2020, S&C partner and co-head of the Antitrust Practice Renata Hesse will speak at Competition Policy International’s CPI Live Event, “Antitrust Analysis of Platform Markets: Beyond American Express.” The livestream conference will focus on the increasing ramifications of the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Ohio et. al. v. American Express, and will explore questions about the sound antitrust analysis of platform businesses.
Renata will speak on a panel titled “Moving Forward After AmEx: Practical Implications & Applications on Platforms Cases,” which will begin at 3:05 p.m. She will be joined by Bruce Hoffman of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; Richard Schmalensee, Professor emeritus of the MIT School of Economics; and John Yun, the Director of Economic Education at George Mason University School of Law’s Global Antitrust Institute. Jonathan Jacobson, an antitrust partner at Wilson Sonsini, will moderate the discussion.
The event will also feature a fireside chat with Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz and Richard Schmalensee.
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S&C’S Antitrust Practice
Sullivan & Cromwell’s Antitrust Practice represents clients in litigation, government enforcement actions and matters involving competition law agencies around the world. The Firm has secured antitrust clearances for some of the largest mergers, acquisitions and dispositions.
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.