Hello, welcome to a special edition of MNX's podcast.

I'm Lewis Crofts, editor-in-chief, and I'm speaking to you this week from Washington, D.C.,

where the 2022 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting has just wrapped up. I'm speaking to you this week from Washington, D.C., where the 2022 ABA antitrust spring meeting has just wrapped up.

I'm recording this podcast on Friday, April the 8th, and the conference just ended.

I'm talking to two of my colleagues, Gushita Vassant and Nick Hurst, both cover antitrusts in the US and the EU, respectively.

As expected, it's been a busy week, no shortage of news, and cocktail parties, and the

odd Emlex article as well. So, starting with the Yukushita. Is the ABA back?

Well, thanks for having me, Lewis. It's back and how? Well, we have exactly 2,878 people who have registered for this conference.

Did you meet all of them?

At the risk of contracting COVID.

No, no, I did not.

But yes, it's back. This is the first ABA spring meeting in three years and there's a lot

of enthusiasm. And I'm excited to have covered three full days of this conference. Nick, who's your

first ABA? Meet anyone who wasn't American? It was chocker with Europeans.

I mean, just in terms of the enforcers accounted that there were the people from the French Competition Authority, the Belgians, the EU, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and no doubt

more.

And then lawyers from all of those countries, plus some.

And then, of course, after the panels, cocktails,

dinners, side events, speaking shows, speaking platforms, breakfast, on and on.

And a diet for everyone. So, with all the chatter going on, nine consecutive panels

every hour for two and a half days.

Ten.

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