Chillin'Competition

We are now opening up registrations for the 27th edition of the competition law program at the IEB in Madrid, which will run from January to March 2024. The course will follow a hybrid format (attendees can participate either in person or online). It is taught partly in English and partly in Spanish. Lectures take place in the afternoon (16h to 20h CET) to facilitate the participation of students joining from Latin America and the U.S.

We are proud to have, once again, an impressive panel of international lecturers, including Judges from EU and national courts, officials from the European Commission, the Spanish CNMC and other national competition authorities, as well as top-level academics, in-house lawyers and practitioners.

In addition to the possibility of registering for the full course, it is also possible to register for individual modules or seminars. The modules and seminars in this upcoming edition will be the following:

–Introductory session (12 January- afternoon).

–Module I – Agreements and Restrictive Practices: Vertical and Horizontal Agreements (15-17 January-afternoon). Coordinator: Carmen Cerdá Martínez-Pujalte (CNMC)

–Module II – Cartels and Procedures (22-24 January- afternoon). Coordinator: Isabel López Gálvez (CNMC)

–Seminar 1- Recent Developments in EU Competition Law (2 February- afternoon). Coordinators: Fernando Castillo de la Torre (Legal Service, European Commission) and Eric Gippini-Fournier (Hearing Officer, European Commission)

–Module III- Abuse of Dominance (5-7 February- afternoon). Coordinator: Konstantin Jörgens (Garrigues)

–Module IV – Merger Control (12-14 February- afternoon). Coordinator: Jerónimo Maillo (USP-CEU)

–Seminar 2 –  Private Enforcement of the Competition Rules- New Challenges. (23 February- afternoon). Coordinator: Mercedes Pedraz (Magistrada, Audiencia Nacional)

–Module V- Sector Regulation and Competition (26 February-28 February). Coordinator: Pablo Ibáñez Colomo (LSE, College of Europe)

–Module VI – Public Competition Law: State Aid and Public undertakings (4-6 March- afternoon). Coordinators: José Luis Buendía (Legal Service, European Commission) and Jorge Piernas (Jean Monnet Chair, University of Murcia)

–Seminar 3 – The Digital Markets Act in Practice (15 March- afternoon). Coordinator: Alfonso Lamadrid (Garrigues, College of Europe).

We will also be holding three practical workshops dealing with inspections, distribution agreements and merger control.

Like every year, we are very grateful to the course’s sponsors, namely Araoz y Rueda, Clifford Chance, Compass Lexecon, Cuatrecasas, Garrigues, Gómez Acebo & Pombo, KPMG, Latham & Watkins, MLAB, NERA, Pérez-Llorca and Uría Menéndez.

For additional information, please contact competencia@ieb.es