# 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 KCs, Judges, Solicitors and Regulators

- Format: In-person
- Date: Thursday, 18 June 2026, 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 £299.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/subsidycontrol26

## 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
- 09:35 View from the bench: What is the direction of travel for subsidy control cases in the UK?
  - Answered by Mr Justice Marcus Smith
- 10:00 Panel Introduction
- Panel: Hana Hammouda, Senior Consultant, NERA; Dr Totis Kotsonis, Head of Subsidies, Pinsent Masons
- 10:15 CMO Test: How has the National Lottery Case changed existing thinking on the practical application of the Commercial Market Operator test going forward?
  - Answered by Joanne Clement KC
- 10:55 New Streamlined Routes: How are the new streamlined routes influencing no-subsidy decisions, the way you advise clients, and the choices public authorities are now making?
  - Answered by Alex Kynoch, Browne Jacobson
- 11:35 Morning Coffee
- 11:55 Schedule 1 Reasoning: How is CAT scrutiny of Schedule 1 reasoning in politically sensitive, regionally significant cases affecting how you frame, evidence, and defend subsidy decisions?
  - Answered by George Peretz KC
- 12:35 Max Recycle: After Max Recycle, where is the wriggle room for public bodies that combine public and market activities within the same legal entity to argue that no subsidy arises?
  - Answered by Aidan Robertson KC
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:00 Principle Assessments: What do the SAU reports on Great British Energy and the National Wealth Fund reveal about how principle assessments should be completed under the Act?
  - Answered by Azeem Suterwalla KC
- 14:40 Limitation Period: How far can you push the court on timing, transparency and when the clock starts for CAT challenges following the latest run of cases?
  - Answered by Joe Barrett KC
- 15:20 Overrun
- 16:00 Close of conference

## How to book

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