• How do AI partnerships beyond chatbots, including chips and infrastructure, affect competition?
• Do minority investments and access to key AI inputs raise antitrust concerns?
• Are AI acqui‑hires and talent concentration attracting greater scrutiny?
• What do early global enforcement signals suggest for AI‑related deals?

• How does merger control overlap with FDI screening in high‑profile cross‑border deals?
• Trends of national-security-linked deals and areas to watch going forward
• To what extent do “national champions” and industrial‑policy goals shape FDI outcomes?
• Competition, national security and geopolitical factors converging in modern dealmaking

•  The DMA/DMCC’s ex ante approach contrasted with the US’s litigation‑driven model
• Where does regulatory divergence expose emerging gaps in AI governance?
• How do AI agents and agentic behaviours, including self‑preferencing and access to compute or platforms, test existing enforcement tools?
• What do algorithmic pricing cases and rapid adoption of sector‑specific AI signal about future scrutiny and market power?

Participants will exchange ideas, best practices and experiences through informal, interactive small‑group discussions on topics set by the facilitators. The roundtables and key takeaways will be Chatham House.

Each facilitator will share one key takeaway from their roundtable with the audience.

• Are industries with major announced deals, like the media sector, prompting agencies to revisit established theories of harm?

• Healthcare mergers facing intensified scrutiny
• The impact of a resurgence of US consent decrees and settlements, including new attention to the Tunney Act
• Shifting expectations around merger efficiencies and deal rationales