Our podcasts bring together some of the top minds at Davis Polk to illuminate and explore the big issues of the day. These rich discussions may include professionals from a number of the firm’s diverse practices, as well as special guests.
THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION HEARINGS
Join Davis Polk as we follow the highly anticipated FTC Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.
The FTC Hearings series features commentary on these historic hearings to help the public stay informed and aware of the potential impact to their business and daily lives. Our speakers will cover key topics including: privacy and big data; mergers and acquisitions, buyer power and antitrust; algorithmic decision-making and artificial intelligence; and the impact of new technologies on competition, innovation and consumer rights.
These broad hearings, the first in nearly 25 years, will be critical to agency policy and enforcement priorities moving forward, and represent an opportunity for early insight into the newly appointed Commissioners’ thinking on key issues to the business community and the public, with significant implications for antitrust, M&A, privacy and data security.
Latest Episode:
Episode 2: The New “Populist” Movement in Antitrust: Its Potential Impact on Deals
Davis Polk partner and former FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz is joined by Louis Goldberg, the co-head of Davis Polk’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group, and Arthur Burke, a litigation partner at the firm with extensive antitrust experience, to discuss the emerging “populist antitrust” movement. This new approach would put a significantly increased burden on merging parties and allegedly dominant firms, and has begun to gain support from prominent figures on both the left and the right. Our panel explores how a new antitrust standard might affect M&A, including:
- increased uncertainty for buyers and sellers
- potential changes in deal terms
- a possible impact on funding and cash-out options for startups
