Benoît Le Bret

Benoit Le Bret is a partner in Gide's Competition team in Brussels. He has recognised experience in competition law, particularly in the field of state aid (financial services, transport, environment, energy, agriculture, major investments, PIIEC) and antitrust.

He also specialises in monitoring EU regulation in a number of sectors (structural funds, gambling and betting, aeronautics, energy and the environment, telecoms, online services). He has in-depth knowledge of internal market rules and Community players and procedures, and is used to negotiations with the European Commission and Community agencies such as ESMA, as well as litigation before the CJEU.

He represents and advises private equity clients on all EU regulatory matters, as well as major companies such as KKR and SNCF on EU-wide holding company and EU rail reform issues respectively, as well as potential state aid. Benoît regularly lodges complaints with the European Commission to redress or protect the interests of his clients in a wide range of sectors.

His working languages are French, English and German. He has been a member of the Brussels and Paris Bars since 2008.