The CBA Competition Law Section's Mergers Committee presents:

The Impact of COVID-19 on Merger Control

April 8, 2020 | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Eastern
Teleconference

The panel will consider the effect that COVID-19 is having and is expected to have on merger control in Canada and internationally and consider, among others, the following topics: 

• The effect that the pandemic will have on the timing of reviews and service standards 
• Potential strategies that can be employed by parties to facilitate a more efficient review to mitigate potential delay
• Whether antitrust regulators should relax information requirements for certain types of transactions during this time
• The effect the pandemic may have on substantive reviews (e.g., increased reliance on failing firm arguments)
• Whether there is expected to be increased use of timing agreements to allow regulators additional time to complete their substantive reviews
• The increased complexity of coordinating global reviews of transactions among regulators
• The challenge of determining the "but for" world against which to assess competitive effects where historic data may give little guidance as to the future 
   

Moderator
Zirjan Derwa, Torys LLP

Speakers
Renée Duplantis, The Brattle Group
Megan Granger, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Ariane Jaros-Denis, Competition Bureau