2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPETITION LAW
(IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF LAW AND COMPETITION APPELLATE TRIBUNAL)
Competition Law & Policy for Sustained Prosperity
12-13th November 2010, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi, India
PROGRAMME*
FRIDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2010
Registration
08:30–09:15 hrs
Plenary Session I
Competition Policy for Sustained Prosperity
Inauguration
Dr M Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law & Justice, Govt of India (Inaugural address)
Salman Khurshid, Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, Govt of India (Chief Guest)
Justice P. N. Bhagwati, Chairman, International Academy of Law, and former Chief
Justice of India
Dr. Justice Arijit Pasayat, Chairman, Competition Appellate Tribunal of India, and former
Judge, Supreme Court of India
Dhanendra Kumar, Chairman, Competition Commission of India
John Wotton, Vice President, Law Society of England and Wales
Dr. Madhav Mehra, President, World Council for Corporate Governance, UK
Tea/coffee break
11:00–11:30 hrs
Plenary Session II
Competition Law and Policy for an Aspirational Economy that Demands Open
Competition
Chair
Speakers
Fali S Nariman, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
Ved P Nanda, Thompson G. Marsh Professor of Law, University of Denver, USA
Past President, World Jurist Association, Founder Ved Nanda Centre for International and
Comparative Law
Sir Christopher Bellamy, Linklaters, London, and former Chairman, Competition Appeal
Tribunal and judge, EU General Court
William Blumenthal, Clifford Chance, Washington DC and former General Counsel, Fair
Trade Commission, USA
Plenary Session III
Competition Law and Policy – Challenges and Opportunities – A Global Perspective
Chair
Dr. Gopal Subramanium, Solicitor General of India & Chairman, Bar Council of India
Speaker
Declan Purcell, Chairman, The Competition Authority of Ireland (Advocacy)
Manuel Sebastiao, Chairman, Competition Authority of Portugal (Regulated sectors)
Pieter Kalbfleisch, Chairman, Netherlands Competition Authority (Consumer welfare)
Phil Evans, Member, Competition Commission UK
Rahat Hassan, Chairperson, Competition Commission of Pakistan
Lunch
11:30–12:30 hrs
12:30–13:45 hrs
13:45–14:30 hrs
Plenary Session IV
Competition Law and Policy – An instrument for unleashing corporate energy and
entrepreneurial spirit
Chair
Speakers
Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission*
Navin Kumar, Secretary, Urban Development
Pradip Chaudhery IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce
V. Bhaskar, Joint Secretary, Industrial Policy
P. D. Sudhakar, Special Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry
Tea/coffee break
Plenary Session V
09:30–11:00 hrs
14:30–15:30 hrs
15:30–15.45 hrs
The Fight Against Cartels: Creating A Global Alliance for Effective Action
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15.45 – 16.45hrs
Chair
Speakers
H.C. Gupta, Member, Competition Commission of India
Michael Cutting, Linklaters, London
Randal T. Hughes, McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto
David Matthew, NERA, London
Sandip Beri, General Counsel – South Asia, Citibank
Clive Stanbrook OBE QC, McDermott Will & Emery/Stanbrook LLP, Brussels
Plenary Session VI
Competition law, IPR and Innovation
Chair
Speakers
Pravin Tripathi, Member, Competition Appellate Tribunal of India
Dr. Renato Nazzini, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo LLP and University of Southampton, UK
Ramesh Vaidyanathan, Mumbai International Airports Ltd./GVK, Mumbai
Usha Amonkar, Mahindra and Mahindra
Ajay Bahl, AZB & Partners, New Delhi
Plenary Session VII
Competition Advocacy for Transparent Markets and Improved Governance
Chair
Speakers
T. K. Vishwanathan, Secretary General, Lok Sabha, House of the People
Geeta Gouri, Member, Competition Commission of India
Jitesh Khosla, Director, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs
Amarjit Chopra, President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
D. S. Rawat, Secretry General, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry in India
Special Plenary
Session VIII
(Venue Hotel Ashok)
Open and Fair Competition – Key to Effective Corporate Governance and Sustained
Growth
Welcome address
Justice P. N. Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Chairman, Golden Peacock
Awards
R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India
Dr. Madhav Mehra, President, World Council for Corporate Governance, UK
Dr. Justice Arijit Pasayat, Chairman, Competition Appellate Tribunal, India and former
Judge, Supreme Court of India
Hon’ble Sri Pranab Mukherjee, Finance Minister of India, Government of India
Special Addresses
Chief Guest’s
Address
Golden Peacock
Awards
Dinner
16.45–17.45 hrs
17.45-18.45hrs
19.15-21.00hrs
Presentation by the Chief Guest
21.00hrs
SATURDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER 2010
Plenary Session IX
Enforcement of Competition Law – Enhancing institutional framework with powers
of investigation and punishment
Chair
Speakers
M. L. Tayal, Member, Competition Commission of India
A. K. Chauhan, Director General, Competition Commission of India
Jim Jeffs, Competition Counsel (Hong Kong and Greater Asia Region), Intel
Ravi Kumar Sabharwal, General Counsel, Whirlpool
B. M. Sharma, President, Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India
Prof. James Nedumpara, Executive Director, CITEL, Jindal Global Law School
Plenary Session X
Regulating Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures
Chair
Speakers
Anurag Goel, Member, Competition Commission of India
Michael Reynolds, Allen & Overy, Brussels
A S Kumar, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited, Hyderabad
Mukesh Bhavnani, Essar Group
09:00–10:15 hrs
10:15–11:30 hrs
11:30 – 11:45 hrs
Tea/coffee break
Plenary Session XI
Vertical Restraints and Distribution Agreements: Does commercial justification
cloak restrictive practice?
Chair
Speaker
Rahul Sarin, Member, Competition Appellate Tribunal
Herbert Fung, Competition Commission of Singapore
Enrico Adriano Raffaelli, Rucellai & Raffaelli, Italy
M. R. Prasanna, former Group Executive President for Legal Affairs, Aditya Birla
Harish Vaid, JAL India
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11:45 – 13:00 hrs
Lunch
13:00–14:00 hrs
Plenary Session XII
Sharing the Competition Law Experience – How has it benefitted the “Aam Adami”the common man?
Chair
Co-chair
Speaker
Prof. K V Thomas, Minister for Consumer Affairs*
Justice Denis Davis, President, Competition Appeal Court, South Africa
Nitin Desai, former Deputy Secretary General, United Nations
Phil Evans, Member, Competition Commission of UK
Prof. R. S. Khanna, Shri Ram College of Commerce, and VOICE
Plenary Session XIII
Creating Competitive Markets in Regulated Sectors - Telecommunications,
Petroleum & Natural Gas, Electricity, Transport and Shipping, Information
Technology
Speakers
R. Ashok, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
L. Mansingh, Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Boar
P. K. Kapoor, Chief Legal Advisor, Central Electricity Regulation Commission
Yashwant Bhave, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority
Vijaya Sampath, Bharti Enterprises Ltd.
14:00–15:00 hrs
15:00–16:00 hrs
16:00 – 16:15 hrs
Tea/coffee break
Plenary Session XIV
Implementing Competition Law – Business practices, ethics and compliance issues
that enhance the corporate governance agenda
Speakers
Navin Joneja, Blakes, Toronto
Girish Gokhale, Senior Vice President – Legal, Lafarge India
Bharat Vasani, Tata Group, Mumbai
Vinayak Khanvalkar, Institute of Company Secretaries
Sudhir Kumar Jha, HDFC Ltd., Mumbai
Plenary Session XV
Future of Competition Law and Policy – New Directions
Chair
Justice Altamas Kabir, Judge, Supreme Court of India *
Valedictory Address
Shri Arun Jaitley, Member of Parliament and Former Union Minister for Company Affairs*
Special Address
Closing Remarks
R. Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India
Vinod Dhall, Dhall Law Chambers and former member and acting Chairman, Competition
Commission of India
Dr. Madhav Mehra, President, World Council for Corporate Governance, UK
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Names with * mark indicate that confirmation is awaited.
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16:15 – 17:15 hrs
17:15 – 18:15 hrs