Antitrust West Coast Conference 2023
San Francisco, CA
Event summary
Cooley is a proud sponsor of the Antitrust West Coast Conference 2023, presented by Informa Connect. The Antitrust West Coast Conference is the West Coast platform for in-house counsel dealing with global antitrust challenges.
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 11:40 am – 12:20 pm PDT
Big Data & Competition: Implications for Platforms
Cooley partner Kathleen O’Neill spoke on this panel.
Topics of discussion included:
- With Big Data and innovation now at the core of every company, what are key antitrust issues on the rise?
- Competition concerns for sharing/pooling data
- The way forward for portability and interoperability?
- Big Data and market power – how deep is the correlation?
- The economics of Big Data and market power
- The challenges of data access and competition in 2023
- Implications for platforms and abuse of dominance
- Managing a new era of data-centric investigations
Thursday, May 11, 2023 | 2:40 – 3:20 pm PDT
Hunting Healthcare – Increased Scrutiny on Health Systems and Big Pharma
Cooley partner Ethan Glass spoke on this panel.
Topics of discussion included:
- Reviewing Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission activity in the space and what to expect in 2023 – 2024
- Updates on criminal prosecution/is there greater deal uncertainty?
- How did the November midterm elections affect 2022’s momentum for more scrutiny in the pharmaceutical sector?
- Developments in healthcare and hospital mergers
- Mergers and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies – what impact is the integration of the largest PBMs with insurers having?
- The importance of data in healthcare
- Reviewing recent pharmaceutical and life sciences merger remedies
- Assessing enforcement against large health systems
- The FTC’s announcement of a pharmaceutical merger task force and study into the PBM industry
- European developments in the pharma/healthcare space
For more information, please email Yena Lee.
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