21st Annual Competition Conference
8 Sep - 9 Sep 2017
Session information
Protecting documents: confidentiality, publication, disclosure and legal privilege
Saturday 9 September (1200 - 1300)
Committee(s)
Antitrust Section
(Lead)
European Regional Forum
Description
Few rules are as important to the effective practice of competition law as those that apply to safeguarding the confidentiality of documents. This panel will examine best practices for navigating the document protection landscape at a time when the rules are evolving and interacting across major jurisdictions. Questions to be addressed include: • How do differences across jurisdictions in the rules of civil discovery or of privilege jeopardise confidentiality? • What are the hazards and pitfalls of leniency processes that are nominally paperless? • Who is entitled to access to documents that competition regulators obtain and place in their files?
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Randal Hughes | Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Working Group Officer, Antitrust Section |
| Daniel Swanson | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, California, USA; Vice Chair, Antitrust Section |
Speakers
| Onno Willem Brouwer | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Brussels, Belgium |
| Paulo Burnier Da Silveira | Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), São Paulo, Brazil |
| Peter A Drucker | AkzoNobel NV, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Nicholas Heaton | Hogan Lovells International LLP, London, England |
| Elizabeth Prewitt | Latham & Watkins, Washington, District of Columbia, USA |