Bastien Thomas

Practice Areas

Bastien Thomas specializes in competition and distribution law and co-manages Racine’s Competition – Distribution team.

With almost 20 years of experience in French and European competition law, Bastien advises both French and international companies on their antitrust, merger control, State aid and private actions issues. Bastien also specializes in foreign investment control. He regularly assists and represents his clients before the European Commission, the French Competition Authority as well as French and European courts.

His sectors of expertise include automotive, mobility, agri-food, energy, microelectronics and retail.

Areas of expertise :

Merger control

Anti-competitive practices

State aid

Private actions

Foreign investments

Career

Linklaters (2008-2015)

Professional Memberships

Bastien is one of the founding members of the ASAE (Association de Suivi des Aides d’État) and lectures Competition law at the Université Paris I La Sorbonne (Joint Master La Sorbonne / Columbia University / Sciences Po).

Publications

“Amazon/Deliveroo in the UK: the application of the failing company exception, a sign of the times?”, in The law and the coronavirus: how an unprecedented pandemic has put our legal system to the test, Collective work, Le club des juristes, 2023.

Co-author of the article “Limitation period”, in “Competition Law, Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe, Directive 2014/104/EU and Beyond”, Chapter 7, p. 147, Ed. Rafael Amaro, Bruylant, 2021.

Co-author of the “Private Enforcement” column of the quarterly review Concurrences.

Co-author of articles in the “Unilateral Practices” column of the quarterly review Concurrences.