RBB

25 January 2024

RBB Partners to speak at Nordic competition law forum

RBB's Petter Berg and Jan Yngve Sand will speak at the CompLaw Nordic conference taking place on 13 and 14 March in Stockholm.

On the afternoon of day 1, Jan will speak on the panel 'The Risks of Information Exchange' which will discuss:

  • Managing trade associations and industry meetings in light of the update horizontal guidelines

  • Online platforms and information exchange

  • Information exchange in pre-merger situations and in the merger bidding phase

  • Designing effective firewalls

  • Lessons learn from recent cases including Banco BPM

Later on day 1, Petter will then participate in the session 'Current State of Private Enforcement in the Nordics and Europe' which will cover:

  • Private enforcement cases in the Nordic countries

  • Forum choice: What’s holding claimants back from bringing claims in the Nordics?

  • Article 102 including Google cases throughout Europe

  • Disclosure considerations

  • Handling confidential information

  • Considerations in bringing/defending a claim

  • Would more private enforcement reduce enforcers workload? Would it increase compliance?

  • Quantification of damages including how the judges across Europe are approaching estimation of damages?

Access the full conference programme here.

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