Antoine Gosset-Grainville

Practice Areas

Partner specialising in all aspects of French and EU competition law with a specific focus on state aid, complex merger control and antitrust litigation. Advises French and international clients in a broad range of sectors, including regulated industries such as transport, telecom, and financial services.

He has recently advised CMA CGM on mergers, including Bolloré Logistics and Altice Media, as well as on various antitrust and regulatory issues; Carrefour on mergers, including the acquisition of its competitor Cora/Match; ENGIE on the in-depth state aid investigation opened by the European Commission in 2024 concerning the 10-year extension of the operation of two Belgian nuclear reactors; the Fédération du Commerce et de la Distribution before the French Competition Authority in the Bisphénol A case, recently obtaining its total exoneration; the French State on the recapitalisation of Air France-KLM, as well as Corsair, the La Poste Group, SNCF and various public operators on State aid issues, notably in the context of the Covid-19 crisis. He also represents several key French banks in litigation before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the EU against a series of decisions by the ECB and the Single Resolution Board.

Career

Antoine founded BDGS Associés in 2013 and is currently also Chairman of the Board of AXA. He was previously Deputy Managing Director of the Caisse des Dépôts (2010-2012), Deputy Director of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet (2007-2010), and partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel’s Brussels office (2002-2007).

Personal

Paris (2002) and Brussels Bars (2013)

ENA (Promotion L. Gambetta - 1993)

Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris

Postgraduate degree in Banking and Finance, Université Paris-Dauphine  (1990)

Languages Spoken

French and English