Europe
Practice Areas
François-Charles Laprévote’s practice focuses on European competition and international trade law, including merger control, state aid, cartel investigations, market dominance and trade defense instruments.
He has advised corporate clients and financial institutions as well as government and public entities in numerous competition, State aid and trade cases before the European Commission, the European Courts in Luxembourg and the French Competition Authority.
Career
Joined firm (2007), became Partner (2013).
2005-2007: Economic adviser of the French Minister for European Affairs.
2002-2005: Detached national expert in the Directorate General for External Trade of the EC (in charge of negotiations on services and investment).
1998-2002: Inspection Générale des Finances (the internal auditing and consulting body of the French Ministry for Finance)
Diploma - École Nationale d'Administration (1998), Master in Law - Université de Paris II - Panthéon-Assas (1994), Degree in Law - Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (1993).
Professional Memberships
Member of Paris and Brussels Bar.
Publications
He publishes on antitrust, state aid and trade. Editor and co-author of several chapters of the Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector, published by Edward Elgar Publishing. He is also an editor and contributor of Cleary Gottlieb’s International Trade and Sanctions Watch blog.
Personal
Language capability: French, German, English.
