8 - 8:45 a.m.
Breakfast, Registration & Networking
8:45 - 9 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction
9 - 9:30 a.m.
Keynote I: Howard Shelanski
9:30 - 10 a.m.
"History of HSR Activity"
Roger Blair and Sara Rodriguez
Coffee Break 10 - 10:15 a.m.
10:15 - 10:45 a.m.
“Antitrust, Federalism, and Premerger Notification in the States”
Bruce Kobayashi
10:45 - 11:15 a.m.
Shifting the Burden: Analyzing the 2024 HSR Revisions and Transatlantic Merger Control Trend”
Rebecca Kirk-Fair, Olga Kozlova Guglielmi, Laurianne Despheghel
11:15 - 11:45 a.m.
“Before and After: Banks, Beer, Beef”
Peter Carstensen
11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote II: Mark Whitener and Deb Garza
1 - 1:30 p.m.
“Estimating the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Antitrust Scrutiny”
John Mayo and Robert Press
1:30 - 2 p.m.
"Serial Acquisitions: Assessing the Effectiveness of the New Enforcement Regime"
Edward A. Snyder
2 - 2:30 p.m.
"The Hart–Scott–Rodino Act at Fifty: Acquisition Patterns and Industry Dynamics"
D. Daniel Sokol, Ginger Zhe Jin, and others TBA
2:30 Closing