About

Provided by Gide Loyrette Nouel

The Competition & European Law department at Gide offers the services of some 20 lawyers in Paris including four partners and two counsels. The team works closely with all other offices of the firm, in particular in Europe, the United States, Africa, and Asia.


Thanks to its wide-ranging experience acquired from advising clients in a multitude of sectors, combined with a solid understanding of an increasingly complex legislative and regulatory environment, the department is ideally placed to assist French and international companies in all matters of economic and European law and to propose practical, tailor-made solutions to address all their needs.


Gide has set up expert legal teams to assist companies in the energy, agriculture and food sectors. In addition to their competition and distribution law expertise, our lawyers offer in-depth knowledge of the particularities of these businesses and the specific regulations applicable in these sectors.

Chambers Review

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Competition/European Law - France

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Gide Loyrette Nouel has solid experience in contentious matters, often advising clients on cartel and abuse of dominance investigations before the FCA and on litigation before national courts and European institutions, including private enforcement actions. The law firm also covers merger control mandates and distribution issues. The team's solid client base includes household names spanning a range of industry sectors such as energy, technology and agriculture.

Work Highlights

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  • Gide Loyrette Nouel assisted Saria with an investigation carried out by the French Competition Authority with regards to market sharing.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Franck Audran
3
Franck Audran
3
Band 3

Franck Audran frequently represents clients in behavioural investigations before the FCA and follow-on damages claims. He also has experience advising on merger control filings.

Franck Audran is super efficient, very pragmatic, has clear ideas and can judge risks.

Franck Audran is efficient and pragmatic, I appreciate that. He is very nice to work with, he is close to us as client. He is also very accessible, personable and provides fluid communication.

Franck Audran is very recognised in the market and knows what's going on; he's excellent.

Franck Audran does lots of work in many aspects of competition. He is very personable.

Franck Audran is an excellent manager of files with complex issues. He is very responsive and has good interpersonal skills.

Emmanuel Reille
4
Emmanuel Reille
4
Band 4

Emmanuel Reille is equally adept at merger filings and antitrust investigations. He assists domestic clients with multi-jurisdictional competition law mandates.

Emmanuel regularly assists us on our notification files. His knowledge of our activities and his pragmatism are of great help to us for the success of our projects.

I like working with Emmanuel, he does good acquisition work.

Laura Castex
5
Laura Castex
5
Band 5

Laura Castex enters the rankings this year thanks to her high level of work and market support. Laura brings experience of assisting clients with a range of antitrust matters, predominantly investments and divestments for significant clients. She is also adept at handling anti-competitive investigation proceedings and designing compliance programmes.

Laura Castex has great expertise and availability.

Laura Castex provides high-quality support.

Laura Castex is very smart, fast and effective. She's a very good lawyer.

Laura is very pragmatic in the management of files and does not give in to pressure. The approaches are result-oriented and take into account the specificities of the clients.

Ranked Lawyers at
Gide Loyrette Nouel

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France

Competition/European Law

Franck Audran
3
Franck Audran
3
Band 3
Emmanuel Reille
4
Emmanuel Reille
4
Band 4
Laura Castex
5
Laura Castex
5
Band 5

Members

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Charles Terdjman

Dimitri Dimitrov

Elizabeth Gautier

Laura Castex