invitation1The Scottish Competition Law Forum is delighted to invite you to its fourth anniversary meeting in Glasgow on Monday 30 November 2009.

This year we will start at 2 pm at Maclay Murray and Spens’ Offices at 151 St Vincent Street in Glasgow with two exciting sessions on the topic of Sport, focusing in particular on the interaction between Competition Law and Sport.

The first session, titled “Making money from Sports: Media rights, Set top boxes and Championships”, will focus on legal aspects of the commercialisation of sport. The second session, “Six plus Five – Homegrown Talent vs The Free Market” will focus on the impact of free movement and competition principles on sport.

Speakers on these two topics will include:

· David Taylor – UEFA Vice President
· Gianluca Monte – Sports Unit of the European Commission
· Ian Forrester – White & Case LLP
· Simon Cliff – General Counsel Manchester City
· Abbe Brown – University of Edinburgh
· Alastair Bell – Partner, McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP

Former FTC Commissioner, William Kovacic will provide an insight into Transatlantic perspectives on this subject to conclude this part of the event.

After an afternoon full of interesting talks and lively discussion we will move to Blythwood Square Hotel for our Annual Dinner. Our after dinner speaker this year will be football commentator and former general manager of Celtic FC, Jock Brown.

Sponsorship opportunities for this event are still available, so if you are interested in supporting us please contact jonathan.ford@shepwedd.co.uk

The cost of the event to include Dinner per person is still to be confirmed. We will inform you about this and the method of payment as soon as possible.

To pre-register please email Brigitte.buice@shepwedd.co.uk and further details will be sent to you nearer the time.

Please find attached the flyer for this event:

http://scotcomp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/invitation.pdf