Compass Lexecon experts win two awards at the 2024 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards

On 9 April, 2024, Compass Lexecon experts were awarded at the 2024 Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C. for two original articles. The goal of the Antitrust Writing Awards is to promote antitrust scholarship and competition advocacy by recognizing and awarding the best antitrust academic, business, and student articles as well as soft laws published in 2023 The Jury is composed of leading antitrust enforcers, academics, and counsel.

The two winning articles included:

• Business Articles - Intellectual Property category - “What the Ex-Ante Benchmark Reveals About the Reasonable Price for SEP Licences” by Pekka Sääskilahti and Andrew Tuffin.
• Business Articles – Europe category - “United Kingdom: Frameworks for Dynamic Competition” by Gabriele Corbetta and Joe Perkins.

Compass Lexecon experts were also nominated in this year’s awards for the following articles:

• Academic Articles – Mergers category – “Algorithms, AI, and Mergers” by Daniel L. Rubinfeld & Michal S. Gal
• Academic Articles - Concerted Practices category – “Upstream Conduct and Price Authority with Competing Organizations” by Enrique Andreu, Damien Neven, Salvatore Piccolo & Roberto Venturini
• Academic Articles - Unilateral Conduct category – “Cheap Exclusion in Markets with Multiple Complements” by Daniel P. O’Brien, Mark Israel & Erica Benton
• Academic Articles – Digital category – “Recommender Systems and Supplier Competition on Platforms” by Amelia Fletcher, Peter Ormosi & Rahul Savani
• Business Articles – Economics category – “Monopsony in Labour Markets: A New Enforcement Priority for Competition Authorities” by Joe Perkins, Catalina Campillo & Gabriele Corbetta
• Business Articles - Asia & Oceania category – “China: Antitrust and Economic Analysis of Key Sectors Under the New Anti-Monopoly Law” by Janet Hui, Wei Huang & Vanessa Yanhua Zhang
• Academic Articles - Intellectual Property category – “Investment and Patent Licensing in the Value Chain” by Gerard Llobet & Damien Neven
• Business Articles – Mergers category – “Lessons from the Life and Death of Merger Efficiency Claims: Merger Rationales v Merger Efficiencies” by Lau Nilausen
• Business Articles - Concerted Practices category – “Pro-Competitive Rationale of Public Price Announcements” by Guillaume Duquesne & Hippolyte Brosse

Read all the award-winning articles here