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Competition & EU Lawyers

National and/or European competition authorities have extensive powers for controlling mergers and acquisitions, penalising anti-competitive agreements and practices and ensuring that state aid is compatible with European regulations. Those regulations can have serious consequences, including financial and reputational, for all types of organisation and their employees.

With a department consisting of two teams and approximately ten associates, we can offer you the advice you need, at national and European level, and assist you in your dealings with competition authorities. Our experts will help you verify the legal compliance of your operations and business practices and will assist you with any litigation in these areas.

Our services, tailored to your issues, are necessary for your projects to succeed in the following areas: merger control, antitrust law and abuse of a dominant position in the private and public sector, opening-up of monopolies to competition (regulated sectors), economic law and restrictive competitive practices, state aid, European law and free movement.

Any breach of these regulations is also likely to give rise to action for damages, which is increasingly common in the current economic and regulatory climate. Whether it's advice, the implementation of compliance or operational audit programmes, assistance with any dispute or complaint relating to the implementation of competition law or the compatibility of domestic law with EU law, we can provide our expertise.

We act for a wide variety of public and private operators and our business covers various sectors such as life sciences, consumer products, private equity, technology, media and electronic communications, energy and infrastructure projects.

"CMS' team of approximately ten associates offers a "very high level of service" and "has proven to be very committed to its clients"." - Legal 500 Paris 2015
"CMS provides a "very high level of services" in antitrust law and merger control as well as in distribution and regulation-related issues." - Legal 500 EMEA 2015

 
Nathalie Pétrignet
Nathalie Petrignet
Partner
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Nathalie joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1989 and became a partner in 2009. She is actively involved in national and European competition law, restrictive practices, commercial negotiations and distribution...
Denis Redon
Denis Redon
Partner
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Denis joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1990 and became a partner in 2004. His practice encompasses all areas of EU and French competition law. He frequently oversees merger notification procedures and advises...
Claire Vannini
Claire Vannini
Partner
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Claire joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2002. She focuses on competition law, European law and the regulation of network industries (postal services, transport, energy, electronic communications). In competition...
Elisabeth Flaicher-Maneval
Elisabeth Flaicher-Maneval
Counsel
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Elisabeth Flaicher-Maneval joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in May 1989
Amaury Le Bourdon
Amaury Le Bourdon
Counsel
Lawyer
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Amaury Le Bourdon is a lawyer in the Competition and European Law Department since November 2013. He is mainly involved in competition and distribution law (antitrust, restrictive practices, merger control...
Vincent Lorieul
Vincent Lorieul
Counsel
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Vincent Lorieul is a lawyer in the Competition and European Law Department. He is mainly involved in competition law (antitrust, merger control, unfair competition, restrictive practices), distribution...
Eleni Moraïtou
Eleni Moraïtou
Counsel
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Eleni is a member of the Competition and European Law team since May 2011. Her practice focuses on issues related to the public sector and to the intervention in the market of public operators as well...
Marine Bonnier
Marine Bonnier
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
She joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2015. She is involved in competition law (antitrust, merger control, abusive practices in commercial relations) and consumer law
Lucas Chevaux
Lucas Chevaux
Associate
France, Lyon
Lucas Chevaux joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon in 2019 within the Corporate/Mergers & acquisitions Department. He is involved in particular in corporate law, mergers & acquisitions transactions, including...
Picture of Marie-Clémence Cicile
Marie-Clémence Cicile
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Marie-Clémence has joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2016, after several years in the Customs department of law firms. Her area of expertise includes all aspects of customs law and international trade...