Stéphane Hautbourg

Stéphane Hautbourg is a partner in Gide's Competition & International Trade team in Brussels.

Renowned for its cutting-edge expertise, particularly in merger control, it offers strategic solutions tailored to the regulatory and economic challenges faced by its clients. He also assists them in drawing up cooperation agreements and assessing unilateral practices, ensuring that they comply with competition rules. Finally, he helps structure projects involving public investment or subsidies and manages the necessary state aid procedures.

Stéphane has advised on a number of complex mergers (Phase II or Phase I with remedies), including Orange Spain/MasMovil, Korean Air/Asiana, PKN Orlen/Lotos, Cofigeo/William Saurin and SEB/Moulinex. He advised Naval Group on the creation of a JV with Fincantieri in the naval defence sector, BPCE on the Cartes Bancaires case and several electro-intensive manufacturers for the joint purchase of electricity. As regards State aids, he represented Orange in the so-called financial measures case.

Stéphane was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1996 and to the Paris Bar in 2003.