Bona Law partner Luis Blanquez was the featured guest recently on the wildly popular Our Curious Amalgam, the weekly podcast of the ABA Antitrust Law Section. The program features prominent practitioners and enforcers discussing the compelling antitrust and consumer protection issues of the day, then sharing interesting personal tidbits with the entire antitrust community listening audience.
Blanquez explains how competition agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere have been scrutinizing Big Tech's efforts to acquire emerging players in the AI space, how the enforcers' concerns are now extending to investments, licensing deals, and other types of transactions that fall outside merger clearance review, and how investigations into such transactions protect future rivals from BigTech's dominance or chill investments in AI technology innovation. Listen in to learn about the effect these investigations may be having on not just the companies directly involved, but also venture capital investors and AI start-ups generally, as well as Blanquez's favorite NBA team, and why he is a big basketball fan.