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

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 Thorny Legal Questions Facing Experienced Practitioners: Directly from Top-Flight KCs, Solicitors and Regulators

- Format: In-person
- Date: Thursday, 19 June 2025, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- 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/subsidycontrol25

## Programme

- 09:30 Registration and coffee
- 10:00 Chair's Introduction: Subsidy Control: Shaping new law into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Chaired by Ciara Kennedy-Loest, Hogan Lovells
- Panel: Claire Froitzheim, Director, Subsidy Advice Unit, Competition & Markets Authority; Dr Totis Kotsonis, Head of Subsidies, Pinsent Masons
- 10:15 Economic Advantage: What - right now - is the legal position on the conferral of an economic advantage, including guarantees and not for profit enterprises?
  - Answered by Joseph Barrett KC
- 10:55 SAU Reports: What can we learn from the SAU scrutiny of Subsidies / Schemes of Particular Interest?
  - Answered by Alexander Rose, DWF
- 11:35 Morning coffee
- 11:55 Enterprise and Selectivity: Where are the grey areas in defining “enterprise” and assessing selectivity? How big must a subsidy be before it meets the fourth limb of Section 2(1)?
  - Answered by George Peretz KC
- 12:35 Bulb Ruling: What role is left for Judicial Review of subsidy decisions following the Court of Appeal's ruling in Bulb?
  - Answered by Jemima Stratford KC
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:00 Principle G: How do you evidence a subsidy's beneficial effect vis a vis its negative impact on trade and competition, in other words, Principle G?
  - Answered by Alex Kynoch, Browne Jacobson
- 14:40 Infrastructure: How do you control - and over come - the difficulties of subsidy control and infrastructure and prevent projects from being needlessly held up or cancelled?
  - Answered by Jamie McRorie, Shepherd and Wedderburn
- 15:20 Market failure: Is ‘market failure’ too rigid a test — and can equity goals help where the economic rationale is unclear?
  - Answered by The Panel
- 15:50 Over-run
- 16:00 Close of conference

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