Our Antitrust department offers an experienced and innovative competition and distribution law team, providing transactional and litigation services for French and overseas corporations, as well as investment funds.
We handle every aspect of merger control proceedings before the French Competition Authority and the European Commission, bringing to bear deep cross-border expertise and working with local lawyers on cross-border cases. Our team is known for its strength in handling the most complex cases. We also represent clients before the French and European courts in matters involving cartels, abuses of a dominant position, restrictive trade practices and distribution law issues.
Our team also offers longstanding experience of handling State aid and FDI screening matters. Finally, we develop global-standard risk management strategies, and provide tailored compliance counsel through standalone compliance programs and on an on-going advisory basis.
We accompany our clients from deal structuring through every key stage of the merger process, assisting with “controllability” reviews; handling notifications; if any, negotiating and monitoring commitments; and leading work in any potential appeals.
We assist plaintiffs or defendants in proceedings involving cartels and abuses of a dominant position before the French and European courts. We also assist with private enforcement actions.
We help clients assess the legality of state aid, guide them through the European Commission’s notification process, and represent them in EU-wide State aid litigation.
We advise clients on structuring and protecting distribution networks for their products or services and on dealing with restrictive trade practices.
We also offer deep experience in handling contentious cases in this field.
We assist clients with the full range of business-critical risk management issues.
Our experienced team provides strategic and legal counsel, developing competition law compliance programs which are individually tailored to the specific needs of each client. We offer a strong cross-practice capability, combining global-standard competition law compliance counsel with the skills of our employment law and data protection teams.
We assist clients in the assessment of the applicability of the FDI screening to their proposed investments, in the preparation and follow-up of formal or informal requests for prior authorization from the Minister of Economy, as well as in the possible negotiation of commitments.
