Date: 22nd October 2018
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Location:
Online
CPD Hours: 1hour 30minutes
With increasingly robust enforcement of competition law, get an up-to-date brief on what it means for in-house lawyers from leading legal counsel Aiste Slezeviciute and risk manager Stewart Hardie.
Recent regulatory actions have indicated a trend towards increasingly robust enforcement of competition law, making non-compliance particularly costly when also considering a growing trend for private damages litigation following competition law breach.
In a period characterised by technological, market and political change - what are main competition law issues facing in-house lawyers?
Join leading in-house lawyer Aiste Slezeviciute, Royal Bank of Scotland and risk manager Stewart Hardie, Lloyds Banking Group (member and Convener of the Law Society’s Competition Law Committee, respectively) for a comprehensive overview of competition law principles; risk management and compliance.
- Meeting regulatory expectations
- Assessing and managing risk exposure
- Penalties and recent trends in competition law enforcement
- Protecting legal privilege in the context of a competition law investigation
- Competition compliance tips for in-house lawyers
Aiste Slezeviciute, Legal Counsel, EU & Competition, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Aiste has considerable EU and competition law experience gained at the European Commission and practising as a lawyer in international firms in Brussels and the UK. Recent experience includes an in-house role as a competition legal counsel in financial services sector. Aiste is dual qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an attorney in New York State, and is currently tutoring in EU & Competition law at the University of Edinburgh.
Stewart Hardie, Compliance Advisory, CB Conduct,Compliance & Operational Risk, Lloyds Banking Group
Stewart worked in private practice for a number of years before joining Bank of Scotland where he held senior legal and compliance positions including Bank of Scotland Group Compliance Officer. Most of his professional, in- house, experience has been in regulatory compliance. He currently works in Lloyds Banking Group, Risk Division in the Conduct, Compliance and Operational Risk team. He has not practised law for many years and never practised as a competition lawyer. However, in-house, in both legal and compliance capacities, he worked on deals, projects and investigations involving competition law considerations. He also made submissions to and met with competition regulators. With the FCA becoming the sector competition regulator for financial services he became closely involved in reviewing competition law in a wider risk management framework. Stewart chairs the Law Society’s Competition Law Reform sub-committee.
