Access, Innovation, and Competition in the Digital Age workshop

The timely discussion drew a distinguished audience and a strong line‑up of speakers. Advocate General Laila Medina opened with insights from recent EU case law, including the Google Android Auto and Lukoil matters, examining the implications for requests that dominant companies open their infrastructures to third parties. She highlighted the delicate balance between, on the one hand, protecting and encouraging investment by large technology players and, on the other, enabling smaller innovators to access existing infrastructures to bring new products to market.

Aymeric de Moncuit, Head of Mayer Brown’s Brussels Antitrust & Competition team, chaired a dynamic panel featuring Advocate General Laila Medina, industry leaders, a representative of the European Commission’s Legal Service and an economist. The debate explored operational constraints, as well as the opportunities and risks inherent in innovation‑driven collaborations. Contributions from the floor enriched the exchange, including perspectives on transatlantic enforcement in evolving political contexts and on maintaining consistency in case law as digital markets develop.

The event underscores Mayer Brown’s commitment to thought leadership at the intersection of competition law and the digital economy.

Speakers included Laila Medina, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union; Giuseppe Conte, member of the Legal Service (Competition team) of the European Commission; Tero Louko, Senior EMEA Competition Counsel at Google; and Cyril Hariton, Vice President at Analysis Group.