# Subsidy Control: Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Answers for Your Clients

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 of the Biggest Legal Challenges facing Experienced Practitioners: Directly from Top-Flight King’s Counsel, Solicitors, Regulators and Economists

- Format: In-person
- Date: Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 9:30AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:00AM)
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: Live Attendance £249.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/subsidycontrol24

## Programme

- 09:00 Registration and coffee
- 09:30 Chair's Introduction: Subsidy Control: Shaping new law into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Chaired by Ciara Kennedy-Loest, Hogan Lovells
- Panellist: Dr Totis Kotsonis, Head of Subsidies, Pinsent Masons
- 09:35 View from the bench: What is the direction of travel for subsidy control cases in the UK?
  - Answered by The Hon. Mr Justice Marcus Smith
- 10:15 Subsidy grey areas: Where are the grey areas over the definition of a subsidy, and to what extent are EU State aid principles and guidance still relevant?
  - Answered by Joseph Barrett KC
- 10:55 Durham case: Given that Durham was not appealed, can you confidently rely on the CAT's reasoning over the conferral of an economic advantage?
  - Answered by George Peretz KC
- 11:35 Morning Coffee
- 11:55 Streamlined routes: To what extent are the streamlined routes being used, and how are they plugging the gap left by the General Block Exemption Regulation?
  - Answered by Alexander Rose, DWF
- 12:35 SAU reports: How helpful is an SAU report given that they will not provide any opinion on the legality of the subsidy itself, and what are the workarounds?
  - Answered by Alex Kynoch, Browne Jacobson
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:00 Principle G: How do you calculate a subsidy's beneficial effect vis-à-vis its negative impact on UK and international trade and competition, i.e. Principle G?
  - Answered by Nicole Robins, Oxera
- 14:40 Legal certainty: Why are there so few challenges, and how can the new regime provide certainty without case law, particularly if State aid law is to be departed from increasingly?
  - Answered by Aidan Robertson KC
- 15:20 Over-run
- 16:00 Close of conference

## How to book

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