Events

The consumer products and retail sector group organises seminars and events on key legal issues raised by current sector trends.

If you would like to be added to our invite list, please contact Sasha McPherson.

GCR Competition Law, Consumer Goods and Retail conference
Chairman: John Davies, head of Consumer Goods and Retail Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Date and venue: Tuesday 23 March 2010, London

To find out more about the event or to register please visit the GCR web site

Our previous events have included:

Product Liability Seminar

Lunchtime 28 November 2008
Speaker: Maija Laurila, European Commission

The sector group also organises an annual programme of international dinner debates for senior management. Previous debates have included:

Food safety: Understanding the regulator's approach to risk, recall and enforcement

Speaker: Andrew Wadge, Chief Scientist of the UK's Food Standards Agency

How to get your money back: a guide to retail trading administrations

Speakers: Alastair Beveridge, Partner of Kroll; and Andrew Pepper chief operating officer of Hilco

Rebranding antitrust enforcement: the OFT’s renewed focus on consumers

Speaker: Sean Williams, Office of Fair Trading

For further information about our events please contact Sasha McPherson.

Getting it right: product recall in the EU

An international study of industry attitudes to product safety and recall in the EU

Read the report

Is your product safe? New Guidance published by the European Commission (February 2010)
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News

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Freshfields elects nine to counsel role View

Briefings

Foreign direct investment in the consumer products and retail sector in China  View

Protecting the consumer from unfair trading  View

Awards

Private equity deal of the year - International Financial Law Review: European Awards, Deals of the Year (2008)

Dispute Resolution Team of the Year - Legal Business Awards (2007)

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