ALRUD’s Partner moderated one of the sessions of IBA conference “The Russian Antitrust Law in an International Context”

On May 29, 2007 within the framework of VI Annual International Competition Network Conference the conference “Russian Antitrust Law in an international context” took place. It was organized by the International Bar Association and the American Bar Association under the auspices of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia.

The Head of FAS Igor Artemyev opened the conference by the speech of welcome. Among experts who made their speeches at the conference there were FAS representatives, heads of legal departments of the biggest Russian companies, representatives of leading Russian law firms. The Senior Partner of ALRUD Vassily Rudomino was appointed the moderator of the session devoted to new Russian antitrust law.

The following foreign experts made their speeches at the conference:

• Randy Tritell, Director, Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission (Washington);
• Graeme Samuel, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission;
• Davis Lewis, Chair, Competition Tribunal of South Africa;
• Michael Reynolds, Partner, Allen & Overy (Brussels) and Co-chair, IBA Global Forum for Competition and Trade Policy ;
• John Davis, Freshfields Bruckhouse Deringer (London);
• Joseph Angland, Heller Ehrman LLP (New-York), Chair, Section of Anti-trust Law, ABA and others.