Competition

At your side when you define your external growth strategies, trade practices and commercial partnerships, ensuring full compliance with competition law

The team works with French and international businesses on all aspects of French and European competition law, in advisory and dispute resolution capacities: mergers,acquisistions and joint ventures, antitrust, contractual and commercial practice disputes.

  • Antitrust litigation before the French and European competition authorities and their controlling jurisdictions
  • Compliance of horizontal and vertical practises and agreements with abuse of dominant position and anticompetitive agreement rules
  • Notifying concentrations to the Competition Authority and European Commission
  • Coordinating concentration multi-filings before foreign competition authorities
  • Guiding and assisting third parties opposing planned concentrations
  • Antitrust investigations
  • Assistance in case of dawn raids by the French Competition Authority and European Commission, subsequent litigation before the Courts
  • Assessing contract and commercial practice compliance with French and European competition law rules
  • Setting up compliance programmes
  • Customised training courses for legal and operations teams

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