Cracking cartels - ACCC enforcement conference

The world's leading enforcement regulators will come together in Sydney in November to take part in the International Competition Network Cartel and Leniency workshops, to be held by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The ACCC will provide Australian competition lawyers, and business, industry and consumer representatives with a unique opportunity to meet the experts at the Cracking Cartels: International and Australian Developments conference to be hosted by the ACCC in Sydney on 24 November 2004.

Conference discussion will focus on how competition regulators are dealing with illegal cartel behaviour around the world. Cracking Cartels will feature the latest investigative issues in the fight against cartels, the effectiveness of leniency policies in curtailing hard core cartels and cooperation by enforcement agencies to combat international cartels.

Cracking Cartels will feature the following international speakers and panellists:

• Mr R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney-General of the Anti-trust Division, United States Department of Justice
• Ms Sheridan Scott, Commissioner of Competition, Canadian Competition Bureau
• Ms Paula Rebstock, Chair, New Zealand Commerce Commission
• Mr James Griffin, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General of the Anti-trust Division, United States Department of Justice
• Mr Gary Spratling, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and co-chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group
• Mr Emil Paulis, Director, Director-General Competition, European Commission
• Mr Simon Williams, Director of Cartel Investigations, UK Office of Fair Trading
• Dr Felix Engelsing, Head of the German and European Cartel Law Unit, BundesKartellamt Germany
• Mr Kazuyuki Funahashi, Deputy Director-General of Investigation Bureau, Japan Fair Trade Commission
• Mr Scott Hammond, Director of Criminal Enforcement, US Dept of Justice.
• Mr Joseph Seon Hur, Director-General of Cartel Bureau, Korea Fair Trade Commission.

Australian speakers will include ACCC Chairman, Mr Graeme Samuel; Justice Raymond Finkelstein and senior practitioners.