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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
Managing PrincipalMr White is a consulting and testifying economist who specialises in applying microeconomics and sophisticated econometric modelling to complex litigation and merger-related questions, primarily in matters involving the health care, financial services and technology industries. He has supported clients in various jurisdictions and industries in follow-on competition damages litigation, assessing overcharge, upstream and downstream pass-on and volume effects. He has served as a testifying expert in the UK Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber), the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and the Amsterdam District Court on competition cases.
Mr White has supported high-profile companies with complex merger reviews across multiple jurisdictions, including in the Veolia/Suez, LVMH/Tiffany, Sika/MBCC and Eutelsat/OneWeb mergers. He has also provided evidence to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission (EC), including on behalf of clients involved in cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations and mergers. Mr White has also provided support to European financial and competition regulators in coordinated conduct investigations.
Mr White has extensive experience addressing competition and intellectual property (IP) issues in matters related to cutting-edge pharmaceutical products and FRAND licensing questions. As part of this work, he has supported a number of scientific and technical experts in front of courts and regulatory bodies. He also regularly supports pharmaceutical clients on competition issues around market access, pricing, denigration and competition from generic manufacturers.
Mr White has worked in a number of jurisdictions, including the UK, the European Union, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Belgium and the US. His writing has been published in an array of journals, including the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, the Competition Law Journal and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, and he regularly speaks at international competition law and policy conferences.