CHRISTINE A. VARNEY TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION NETWORK CONFERENCE IN ZURICH

From June 3-5, 2009, Christine A. Varney, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division, will participate in the eighth annual International Competition Network (“ICN”) conference in Zurich, Switzerland. She will join senior government antitrust officials and other antitrust experts from multinational organizations and the private sector.

The conference will address the following issues: unilateral conduct, mergers, cartels, advocacy and competition policy implementation. Created in 2001 by 15 government antitrust agencies from around the world, including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice, the ICN includes 107 member agencies from 96 jurisdictions.

Andre Barlow
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