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Vice President Josh White Hosts Fireside Chat and Panel at “GCR & Analysis Group: Competition and Sustainability 2023”
At an event exploring competition and sustainability issues, hosted by Analysis Group and Global Competition Review in London, Vice President Joshua White led a fireside chat and moderated a panel discussion with UK regulatory and legal experts. In his opening remarks, Mr. White provided an overview of the growing relationship between competition policies and environmental initiatives in the context of climate change, noting several policy shifts in Europe and the US. He then led the expert discussions covering sources of tension between competition policy and sustainability, as well as additional aspects of competition policy, including “greenwashing” and consumer welfare; the potential environmental abuse of dominance; the assessment of environmental benefits in merger reviews; and the role of state aid in policy assessment.
Ann Pope, from the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and Simon Holmes, from Oxford University and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, participated in the fireside chat, while the panel discussion included Maurits Dolmans (Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hamilton), Jay Modrall (Norton Rose Fulbright), and Vanessa Turner (the European consumer organization BEUC).
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Joshua White
Vice PresidentMr. White is a consulting economist who specializes in applying microeconomics and sophisticated econometric modeling to complex litigation and merger-related questions, primarily in matters involving the health care, financial services, and technology industries. His work across a diverse set of engagements has encompassed simulating consumer demand and switching behavior, analyzing whether intellectual property (IP) licensing rates are FRAND-compliant, and estimating ex ante default probabilities for structured investment vehicles. He also has substantial experience developing innovative technological tools for analyzing datasets for merger and competition analyses.
Mr. White has supported both economic and scientific experts addressing competition and intellectual property (IP) issues in matters related to cutting-edge pharmaceutical products. He has supported clients in various jurisdictions and industries in follow-on cartel damages litigation, assessing overcharge, upstream and downstream pass-on, and volume effects.
Mr. White has worked in a number of international jurisdictions and has served as a testifying expert in the UK’s Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) on competition matters related to restrictive land covenants. He has also given evidence and submissions to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on behalf of clients involved in market investigations and mergers. Mr. White has supported several clients before the European Commission on cartel and merger matters and has provided support to European financial and competition regulators in coordinated conduct investigations. Mr. White has published a number of articles and regularly speaks at international competition law and policy conferences.