Le Cabinet De Pardieu Brocas Maffei est fier de vous annoncer que son équipe Droit de la Concurrence / contrôle des concentrations est reconnue, pour la troisième fois d’affilée, comme l’une des meilleures de France. Elle est classée parmi les équipes « Elite » par la Global Competition Review dans le classement GCR100 établi pour l’année 2022.
Félicitations à toute l’équipe !
« Philippe Guibert now mans DE PARDIEU BROCAS MAFFEI’s competition practice alone since former co-head Emmanuel Durand left in January 2021 to join DWF. The firm made up for his loss by promoting former counsel Laëtitia Gavoty Tolot and Alexandre Eberhardt-Le Prévost to partner in June 2021. Counsel Sofia El Hariri and six associates round out the team, although a further five associates are often drafted in from the firm’s regulatory and litigation practices.
The team has retained an impressive client roster despite the internal shuffle – including Facebook, which it represents before France’s Competition Authority as the social media company seeks interim measures against Apple relating to allegedly anticompetitive practices in advertising markets. It is also assisting the French Press Magazines Association in its complaint against Google’s alleged abuse of dominance over neighbouring rights and in challenging the company’s alleged non-compliance with the French enforcer’s interim injunction. It is also seeking interim measures against Alstom on behalf of RATP and SNCF, which accuse the train manufacturer of abusing its dominance in the public procurement of suburban and urban trains following its acquisition of Bombardier assets. The firm also defends Volkswagen and MAN against Trucks cartel damages claims in France.
In merger control work, De Pardieu is assisting Derichebourg Group with the acquisition of GDE-Ecore, which is being reviewed by the European Commission and three national competition authorities. In another complex deal, the team acts for Soufflet in its sale to In Vivo Group, which will create the third-largest European agri-food cooperative group and requires approval from the European Commission and 11 national competition authorities. The firm also secured the EU authority’s approval for Altarea’s purchase of Primonial Group and for French insurer CNP Group’s acquisition of joint control by La Poste and CDC. Before the French authority, the firm is steering Altice Mobile through a review of the sale of its telecommunications infrastructure activities to Cellnex. »