Advanced Agency & Distribution Conference: Managing today’s commercial and competition law challenges on and offline

The complexity of agency and distribution agreements and relationships is increasingly being manifested in significant legal and regulatory developments:
• greater scrutiny by competition authorities of antitrust policies and violations
• new and convoluted legal disputes arising from on and offline selling
• continually developing case law in various European jurisdictions.

This conference will review the legal and commercial differences between agents and distributors as well as their rights and obligations. It will also explore the application of the competition rules and how companies can take a robust view of any concern.

Key areas of focus include:
• Definitions and interpretations
• Agency, distribution and licensing agreements  
• Doing business online
• Category management 
• Dominant issues
• Competition law considerations and risks

For more information please download the Advanced Agency & Distribution event brochure today.

• Review recent developments 
• Discuss practical challenges 
• Assess the crucial practical challenges and legal complexities of agency/distributor relationships
• Analyse distribution challenges for dominant companies, recent progress and directions 
• Evaluate the increasingly important forum for selling and advertising online
• Discover the differing types of agreements and associated risks for agents and distributors