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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

 
Lilia-Oriana Dif
Lilia-Oriana Dif
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Lilia-Oriana DIF joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2023. Her practice covers all aspect of European and French competition law (cartels, abuse of dominant position, merger control and state aid). Before...
Myriam El Andaloussi
Myriam El Andaloussi
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Myriam El Andaloussi joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2022. She is involved in technology, media and communications law, and notably on privacy and data protection, consumer law and digital rights. She...
Guillaume Melot
Guillaume Melot
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Guillaume joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2018. His practice covers all aspect of European and national competition law (cartels, abuse of dominant position, merger control and state aid). Before joining...
Camille Peraudeau
Camille Peraudeau
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Camille Peraudeau joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2022. She is an associate lawyer in the Competition and EU Law department. She mainly advises on competition and distribution law (antitrust, merger control...
Agathe Le Quellec
Agathe Le Quellec
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Agathe joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2021. She is a lawyer  in the Competition and European Law department. She mainly advises on competition law (anti-competitive practices, merger control), unfair...
Ariane Rolin
Ariane Rolin
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Ariane Rolin joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2021. She is involved in European Law and all aspect of Competition Law (cartels, abuse of dominant position, merger control and state aid). Ariane also advises...
Arta Salihu
Arta Salihu
France, Lyon
Arta Salihu joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2023. She is involved in intellectual property law, information and technology law, economic law (competition, distribution, and consumer law), contract law...