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Antitrust & Technology for Attorneys: Dealing with a Global Anti-Competitive Environment
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Alden F. Abbott
Deputy Director for Special Projects, Office of International Affairs
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Alden F. Abbott is Deputy Director for Special Projects in the FTC’s Office of International Affairs, effective August 2009. In that role, he participates in intraagency and interagency activities, represents the FTC before domestic and foreign audiences, and helps drive policy development.
Previously, as Associate Director in the Bureau of Competition, he led policy development, evaluation, and international activities in the Bureau; he represented the Commission in domestic and international fora; and he also supervised the director of the FTC Office of Policy and Coordination. From April through June 2005 Mr. Abbott was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. Prior to joining the FTC in June 2001, Mr. Abbott served in a variety of senior government positions at the Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Department of Justice, including, e.g., Acting General Counsel, DOC; Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, DOC; Senior Counsel, Office of Legal Counsel, DOJ; and Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, DOJ. Mr. Abbott also has served as Adjunct Professor at George Mason University Law School since 1990. Mr. Abbott is listed in Who’s Who in America and serves on the editorial board of the ABA Antitrust Law Journal. He speaks French, Spanish, and Italian.
Albert A. Foer
President
American Antitrust Institute
Albert A. ("Bert") Foer is founder and President of the American Antitrust Institute. His career has included private law practice in Washington, DC (Hogan & Hartson, Jackson & Campbell); the Federal Senior Executive Service (as Assistant Director and Acting Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition); CEO of a mid-sized chain of retail jewelry stores for twelve years; trade association and non-profit leadership; and teaching antitrust to undergraduate and graduate business school students. Foer has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews relating to competition policy. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, with an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Brandeis University, and an M.A. in political science from Washington University.
Dr. Timothy Daniel
Senior Vice President, (Former Assistant Director, Antitrust, FTC’s Bureau of Economics)
NERA Economic Consulting
Dr. Daniel specializes in antitrust and competition, with experience in intellectual property and commercial damages as well. Dr. Daniel has analyzed the economic effects of numerous mergers and other business practices, including tying and exclusive dealing. He has presented economic analyses to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, and state-level officials in a broad variety of industries including medical equipment, software, retail, consumer goods, chemicals, advertising, and construction materials. He has testified in US District Court in litigations involving the economic effects of exclusive dealing and noncompete agreements, and also testified before the South African Competition Tribunal in a major merger proceeding. In addition, Dr. Daniel has prepared expert testimony on liability and damages in intellectual property matters, including copyright and trademark infringement litigations.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Daniel served as the Assistant Director for Antitrust in the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. In that capacity, Dr. Daniel conducted and supervised the agency’s economic analysis in pending merger, nonmerger, and intellectual property investigations across a broad array of industries. Dr. Daniel also held managerial and staff positions in the Bureau of Economics’ Divisions of Economic Policy Analysis and Consumer Protection. While with the FTC, he helped develop the agency’s economic analysis in matters with a significant intellectual property component such as patent pools and matters involving the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Daniel’s writings on business practices and regulations that affect consumers and competition have appeared as Federal Trade Commission Staff Reports, in the Journal of Regulatory Economics, in Antitrust magazine, and in The Electricity Journal.
Education: PhD and MA in economics, University of Maryland; BA in economics, University of Virginia
Hartmut Schneider
Partner
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Hartmut Schneider is a partner in the firm's Regulatory and Government Affairs Department, and a member of the Antitrust and Competition and Aviation Practice Groups. He joined the firm in 1999.
Resident in WilmerHale's Washington office, Mr. Schneider is a US and German-qualified lawyer who practices antitrust law primarily before US agencies and courts. He has extensive experience in securing merger clearance for transactions in a diverse range of industries and regularly counsels clients on the compliance of joint ventures, other horizontal cooperation agreements and vertical distribution agreements with the antitrust laws. Mr. Schneider also has worked in the Antitrust and Competition Department of the firm's Brussels and Berlin offices, as well as in the New York office. In addition to his US antitrust law expertise, Mr. Schneider has significant experience in EC and German competition law, as well as in EC state aid and aviation law.
Recent highlights
- Assisted Verizon Communications in securing antitrust clearance from the US Department of Justice for its
acquisition of Alltel Corporation (United States of America, et al., v. Verizon Communications, Inc., et al., US
District Court for the District of Columbia).
- Assisted in representing a pharmaceutical company in FTC investigation and litigation concerning patent
settlements.
- Assisted in advising a multinational energy company on antitrust aspects of a dispute concerning LNG sales
contracts.
- Advised on establishment of an antitrust compliance program for multinational printing company.
Mr. Schneider currently serves as the Chair's Assistant in the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law Leadership.
Mr. Schneider regularly publishes on various antitrust law-related issues, most recently an article on pre-merger notification for cooperative transactions. He also is co-author of the chapter on free movement of persons in J. Schwarze (ed.), EU-Kommentar, and of the chapter on the treatment of non-full function joint ventures under Art. 81 EC in Frankfurter Kommentar zum Kartellrecht.
Antitrust & Technology for Attorneys: Dealing with a Global Anti-Competitive Environment LIVE Webcast
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