Thursday, 24 May 2018, Banatao Auditorium, Berkeley University, California

Logan's broad industry experience includes computer software and hardware, e-commerce, telecommunications, media and entertainment, consumer products, and defense. He also counsels clients on a wide variety of issues, including joint ventures and other strategic alliances between competitors, antitrust compliance, pricing, distribution, and distributor and dealer relations, and consumer protection matters.

Noah is a partner in our Global Competition Practice Group and also serves as the head of our Taiwan Practice Group. Noah counsels clients with respect to all issues arising under US federal and state antitrust and competition laws. He focuses on the intersections of antitrust and intellectual property and industry-specific regulation.

Debbie Feinstein heads the firm's Global Antitrust group, and brings a wealth of experience to her practice in advising clients on a range of antitrust challenges before US antitrust authorities. She recently re-joined the firm from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), where she was Director of the Bureau of Competition.

A partner in Orrick's Washington, D.C., office, Jay is the leader of the firm's Antitrust and Competition Group. His practice covers both U.S. and international competition law, with an emphasis on antitrust and intellectual property issues involving technology markets. He is a first chair trial lawyer with extensive experience representing clients in government investigations relating to monopolization and abuse of dominance, mergers and acquisitions, and high-stakes litigation.

Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and internet law, patent law, trademark law, antitrust, and remedies. He is the author of seven books (all in multiple editions) and 162 articles on these and related subjects, including the two volume treatise IP and Antitrust. 

Hal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. Since 2002 he has been involved in many aspects of the company, including auction design, econometric analysis, finance, corporate strategy and public policy. Hal also holds academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management.

Ms Wei has extensive experience in financial institutions, real estate, energy, telecommunications, retail, automobile, high-tech and traditional manufacturing industries, and represents various multinational companies, Chinese companies, investment banks, and private equity funds in their merger and acquisition transactions. 

Stephen Weissman recently rejoined the firm after serving as the Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition from 2013-2015. At the FTC he was involved in and supervised the agency’s review of hundreds of merger and non-merger investigations and enforcement actions, covering a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals and other healthcare sectors, consumer products, energy, high-tech and general manufacturing.

Mr. Yeater's areas of expertise include the evaluation of damages in antitrust, intellectual property, and complex commercial matters in a variety of industries including media, high technology, retail and institutional financial services, and telecommunications. He has worked with expert witnesses in their preparation of damages analyses for numerous high-profile cases in the technology sector, including several antitrust matters involving Microsoft.