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Harvard Worldwide Week: Working for and with European Union institutions: public and private sector careers in Brussels

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to a presentation by Professor José Manuel Martínez Sierra who will discuss career options within the institutions themselves as well as in Brussels’ option-rich private sector.

Professor Martínez has previously worked for the European Commission. The session will be followed by a Q&A during which participants will be able to ask questions as well as a brief informal networking opportunity.

Lunch will be provided.

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to a lecture by Bernard Cazeneuve, Former Prime Minister of France.

On Friday March 1 from 4:30pm to 5:30pm, Mr. Cazeneuve will talk about the Cooperation between the United States and Europe to combat International Corruption. The Lecture will take place at Hauser Hall, 102 Malkin Classroom, Harvard Law School.

Please note that there are only 40 tickets available for the lecture. You can register on Eventbrite with the password “HELA”.

Bernard Cazeneuve

Bernard Cazeneuve was Prime Minister of France from 2016 to 2017. He was also Minister of State for European Affairs (2012-2013), Minister of State for the Budget (2013-2014) and Minister of Interior (2014-2016).

Since 2017, Bernard Cazeneuve has been a partner at August Debouzy specialized in White-Collar Crime, Compliance and Litigation. He has also been a speaker at many conferences related to security, politics, law and economy and a lecturer at the Paris University Sciences Po on international security.

The Lecture

Mr. Cazeneuve will talk about the cooperation between the US and Europe to combat bribery and international corruption, a field he is practicing in as a Partner at August Debouzy. After the lecture there will be ample opportunity to ask questions.

With the adoption of the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) in 1977, the US aimed to tackle the problem of corruption by Foreign Public Agents of American firms. Since the adoption of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions in 1997, the US has also applied the FCPA extraterritorially and concluded the Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) for crimes committed abroad by foreign firms.

At the same time, Europe aimed to attack international corruption in domestic firms by adopting laws inspired by the US model. For example, the UK adopted the Bribery Act in 2010 and France adopted the Law Sapin II in 2016 which created a legal framework similar to the DPA and an Anti-Corruption Agency.

Mr. Cazeneuve advocates both the creation of a European Anti-Corruption Prosecutor in charge of prosecuting corruption committed in Europe or by European firms and a renewal of the cooperation between the US Department of Justice, European Union, and European Prosecutors.

DISRUPTION, INNOVATION AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

The Harvard European Law Association would like to invite you to its annual Spring Conference which will be held on Saturday March 2, 2019 from 9:00am to 6:00pm at Wasserstein Hall, Milstein Conference Center, Harvard Law School.

The spring of 2019 will be a pivotal moment in EU history with Brexit becoming a reality in March 2019. Furthermore, European elections take place in May 2019, which makes the Conference an opportune moment to reflect on the successes and failures of the EU institutions over the past five years. The Conference will focus on the digitalization of the economy and whether the goals for the Digital Single Market set by the Juncker Commission have been reached.

The Conference will explore certain challenges posed within this broader framework and will analyze the impact of these developments on EU-US relations through four panel discussions on (1) Brexit, (2) Banking & Finance, (3) Antitrust and (4) the Digital Economy.

Program

9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration and breakfast

9:30 am – 10:00 am Keynote address by Bernard Cazeneuve, Former Prime Minister of France

10:00 am – 11:15 am BREXIT: THE FUTURE OF EUROPE AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS

Bernard Cazeneuve, Former Prime Minister of France
Jessica Simor, Matrix Chambers
Marjorie Chorlins, US Chamber of Commerce
Michael Waibel, University of Cambridge
Allan Hennessy, Harvard Law School

11:30 am – 12:45 pm BANKING & FINANCE: DISRUPTION OR BUSINESS AS USUAL?

Peteris Zilgalvis, European Commission
Markus Lammer, Credit Suisse
Martin Boehringer, Credit Suisse
Douglas Landy, Milbank
Heinrich Nemeczek, Freshfields
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm – 2:45 pm ANTITRUST: ENFORCEMENT IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY

Jason Furman, Harvard Kennedy School
Michele Davis, Freshfields
Alfonso Lamadrid De Pablo, Garrigues
Matthew C. Hammond, Harvard Law School, US Department of Justice
Meredith Mommers, Freshfields
Keith Hylton, Boston University

3:00 pm – 4:15 pm DIGITAL ECONOMY: INNOVATION THROUGH REGULATION OR LAISSEZ-FAIRE?

Dipayan Ghosh, Harvard Kennedy School
Nicholas Bramble, Google
Thanos Rammos, Taylor Wessing
Julian Westpfahl, SKW Schwarz
Urs Gasser, Harvard Law School

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Closing Remarks by Tim Hickman, White & Case

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm Networking reception

Sponsors

The Conference is generously sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP as well as Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Taylor Wessing LLP, Credit Suisse, SKW Schwarz, White & Case LLP, Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard and Jean Monnet ad Personam Chair in EU Law and Government

CHALLENGES OF AN IN-HOUSE ANTITRUST COUNSEL. HOW TO GET EMPLOYEES TO COMPLY WITH ANTITRUST RULES?

Please join HELA and HLS Antitrust Association for a lunch talk on the challenges faced by an in-house antitrust counsel with Anneleen Streatemans. Ms. Streatemans is Global Legal Director Competition at AB InBev. She leads AB InBev’s global antitrust strategy and is overseeing AB InBev’s antitrust compliance worldwide.

TOPIC

Ms. Streatemans will first talk about her career path and will expand on questions such as what made her switch from being an antitrust lawyer practicing at a law firm to working in-house, how being an in-house counsel is different from working at a law firm and how experience gained at a law firm is relevant in-house.

Ms. Streatemans will furthermore discuss some of the challenges that arise in ensuring antitrust compliance at a multinational/multi-billion company. She will in particular elaborate on what happens after a court or antitrust authority has ruled on antitrust questions and how large multinationals ensure their employees stick to antitrust rules even when those rules remain grey.

ANNELEEN STRAETEMANS

Ms. Straetemans is Global Legal Director Competition at AB InBev, and leads AB InBev’s global antitrust strategy. She supports all markets and business units in everything antitrust or competition related. This includes partnering with Revenue Management, Trade Marketing and Sales to help shape commercial strategies, rolling out antitrust toolkits across the world and leveraging behavioral insights, big data and new technologies to improve antitrust compliance.

She is an active member of Women@Competition, a platform to showcase up and coming antitrust talent, and is a regular speaker at conferences and universities. She holds a master degree in law from the University of Leuven (2009) and UC Berkeley (2010).

Lunch will be served.

Please join HELA for a lunch talk on Foreign Direct Investment Screening in the EU.

Christian A. Krebs, Partner at Jones Day, will give an introduction on the relevance of Foreign Direct Investment screening for M&A deals and other investments in European businesses, introduce the new EU regulation on Investment Screening and discuss its effects on Foreign Direct Investment in Europe.

The Topic

Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) are the backbone of a globalized economy. Yet, for the sake of national security and public policy, governments around the globe have started to push back on foreign direct investments. Therefore, investment screening becomes an issue for international M&A deals and other investments. Most notably, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has recently earned itself a reputation of being a protectionist tool to avert unwanted transactions.

Taking the hint from the US, a public debate about scrutinizing – and blocking – FDI has commenced in Europe. In order to harmonize the varying screening policies in the EU Member States, the EU has passed a regulation on investment screening, which will come into force in April 2019. The lunch talk will discuss this new EU regulation and its expected effects.

Christian A. Krebs

Christian A. Krebs is a Partner at Jones Day, based in Frankfurt. He has more than 10 years of experience advising international corporations and financial sponsors on cross-border M&A transactions, corporate law, and corporate governance. Chris is recommended for large M&A transactions in The Legal 500 EMEA and Germany. Foreign Direct Investment Screening is a frequent part of his cross-border M&A practice. Chris worked at international law firms in New York, Brussels, and Buenos Aires.

Chris’ interest for EU and international law emerged during his studies at the Universities of Saarbrücken (Germany) Lille (France) and Warwick (UK). As part of his German practical legal training, he worked for a while on various EU law matters for an international law firm in Brussels. Chris graduated from Harvard Law School in 2011 with an LL.M. Degree.

Non-pizza lunch will be served. The lunch is sponsored by Jones Day.

ANTITRUST IN THE DIGITAL AGE – SHOULD ENFORCERS CARE ABOUT DATA PRIVACY? THE CASE OF FACEBOOK IN GERMANY

Please join HELA and HLS Antitrust Association for a lunch talk on the interplay between antitrust and data protection in the digital economy with Dr. Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte.

Topic

The rise of big data (including personal data) has impacted many business areas and poses a challenges for both antitrust and data protection. The question has risen whether antitrust enforcers should be concerned with data privacy or whether this should be dealt with by data protection agencies under data privacy laws. Earlier this year, the German Competition Authority has taken the view that data privacy is indeed an antitrust issue and has found that Facebook infringed competition rules by breaching data protection provisions.

Dr. Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte

Salomé is managing partner at Hogan Lovells in Brussels and advises on all aspects of EU competition law, including merger control, investigations (cartels, verticals, state aid, dominance and other behavioral issues), compliance and litigation before the EU courts. Salomé’s practice covers all industry sectors, but is widely known for her particular experience and in-depth knowledge in consumer goods and services. In 2013, she received the International Law Office’s (ILO) EU Competition Lawyer of the Year Client Choice Award, which recognizes those lawyers and law firms around the world that stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service.

Salomé is associate professor of EU competition law at IE Law School and a fellow of the Centre for European Studies/IE in Madrid. She frequently writes and speaks on issues relating to competition. She is the president of the Harvard Club of Belgium and a member of the board of the global Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Salomé was appointed Vice-Chair of AmCham EU Competition Policy Committee in 2017 for a two-year term.

Salomé graduated summa cum laude in law and economics from the University of Deusto (Premio Extraordinario de Licenciatura) and holds a master of laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School, where she was an associate fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard. She obtained a PhD in law from the European University Institute in Florence and has been a Fulbright scholar. Salomé is admitted to practice in Belgium and Spain.

The HLS Antitrust Association and European Law Association is thrilled to welcome Salomé Cisnal De Ugarte (Managing Partner of Hogan Lovells’ Brussels office), Kathy Bradish (Counsel, Cleary) Sam Hynes (Associate, S&C), Laura Collins (Senior Associate, Freshfields) to discuss women and antitrust.

Lunch will be served.

Please join HELA for a lunch talk on official secrets and oversight in the European Union with Dr Vigjilenca Abazi.

Topic

Does the governance of secrecy in the European Union impede its fundamental principles of democracy and fundamental rights? Based on her recent book, Dr Abazi explains the shifts in institutional practice of oversight in the European Union that disproportionately favour secrecy and the protection of classified documents while creating serious limitations to open democratic deliberations and access to justice.

Based on material from forty interviews with practitioners and other stakeholders, this book talk will also offer an understanding of the practices of official secrets and provide a critical and much-needed perspective on how parliamentary, judicial and administrative oversight institutions deal with access to classified material and the dilemma of oversight to concurrently ensure secrecy necessary for EU security policies and openness needed for constitutional checks and balances.

Dr Vigjilenca Abazi

Dr Abazi is a Fellow at Yale Law School, Information Project Society and Assistant Professor of European law at Maastricht University. She has been an Emile Nöel Fellow at NYU School of Law and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. Dr Abazi holds a PhD degree from University of Amsterdam and an LLM from Yale Law School.

Dr Abazi has more than 20 scientific peer-reviewed publications in leading journals and is member of editorial board at European Journal of Risk Regulation. She has been invited for more than 40 academic guest lectures at leading universities worldwide including at Harvard Law School, Oxford University, European University Institute, University of Tokyo, FGV Brazil, NYU, Sciences Po Paris. Her work has been translated in Russian, German, and Spanish and featured in news media such as Der Spiegel, Le Monde, EU Observer, Bloomberg and Publico. In addition to her academic work, Dr Abazi has offered legal advice to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe.

The last European Mixer of the year is just around the corner! Before you file all your assignments or you depart for your next adventure, join us next Wednesday, April 17, at 6.30 pm, to get some European inspiration for those challenges!

The venue hosting us will be announced shortly! We hope to see you all there! Share the event with your friends and be ready for another evening where united in diversity will again be the motto!

NOTE: 21+ Photo ID required. Only passports will be accepted as international IDs.