2020 Workshop Programme

Earn up to 9.5 CPD hours

CPD learning objectives – you will:

Learn from experts in their fields and skilled workshop participants of the latest thinking, ideas and developments in the following areas:

1. Issues surrounding the application of competition laws during and after the COVID-19 crises;

2. How the misuse of market power prohibition (s.36) will be strengthened by adding an effects test;

3. What economists bring to the table when making competition and regulatory decisions;

4. Insights on drafting joint venture and commercial agreements towards complying with the Commerce Act;

5. Application of the concepts of unconscionability and unfair contract terms under the Fair Trading Act;

6. How acquisitions of emerging or potential competitors should be analysed;

7. With criminalisation of cartel conduct due to commence in April 2021 – what can NZ expect based experience from Australia.

Gain insights into often complex economic issues for when advising firms and when dealing with the Commerce Commission.

Wednesday 19 August

9.30am	Registration/webinar access opens
9.45am	Welcome and Introduction Anna Ryan Partner, Lane Neave Chair, Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand
10.00am	Keynote Session: Antitrust in times of crisis and emerging from the crisis
	Chairperson: Keynote: Commentator:	Anna Ryan CLPINZ Chair and Partner, Lane Neave Maureen K. Ohlhausen Section Chair – Antitrust & Competition Law, Partner, Baker Botts, Washington D.C. Ayman Guirguis Partner, K&L Gates, Sydney
11.20am	Break
11.40am	Session Two: Misuse of market power – what an 'effects test' would mean for New Zealand
	Chairperson: Speaker: Commentator:	John Land Barrister, Bankside Chambers Dr Katharine Kemp Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales Brent Fisse Principal, Brent Fisse Lawyers
1.00pm	Break
2.00pm	Session Three: Hipster economists? Values, welfare and evidence
	Chairperson: Panel:	Justice David Goddard Subject to Court scheduling - TBC Dr John Small Commissioner, NZ Commerce Commission Lilla Csorgo Senior Consultant, Charles River Associates Kieran Murray Managing Director, Sapere Research Group
3.00pm	Day close

9.00am	Session Four: Handy hints for practice – Joint ventures and commercial agreements
	Chairperson: Panel:	Troy Pilkington Partner, Russell McVeagh Sasha Daniels Lead Legal Business Partner, Spark Bradley Aburn Senior Associate, Russell McVeagh Chris Bowden Senior Manager, Projects - Networks, Air New Zealand
10.20am	Break
10.40am	Session Five: Unconscionability and unfair contract terms
	Chairperson: Speaker: Commentator:	James Craig Partner, Simpson Grierson Sarah Court Commissioner, ACCC Anna Rawlings Chair, NZ Commerce Commission

9.00am	Session Six: Acquisitions of nascent competitors
	Chairperson: Speaker: Commentator:	Dr Will Taylor Associate Director, NERA Renata B. Hesse Co-Head Antitrust Group, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Washington, D.C. Iain Thain Partner, DLA Piper
10.20am	Break
10.40am	Session Seven: Cartels – criminalisation – lessons from the Australian experience
	Chairperson: Speaker: Commentator:	Glenn Shewan Partner, BellGully Marcus Bezzi Executive General Manager, ACCC Marc Corlett QC Barrister, Britomart Chambers
12.00pm	Workshop Close
12.10pm	Annual General Meeting