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Thomas Elkins
Work Department
Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group
Position
Thomas is a partner in Linklaters’ Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group.
He has expertise in all aspects of competition law, including merger control (before the European Commission and the French Competition Authority as well as coordinating multi-jurisdictional clearances), behavioural practices (cartel and abuse of dominance cases) and private damages claims.
Thomas is a longstanding advisor to clients in the automotive, healthcare, tech and retail sectors.
Career
2007-present: Linklaters
Languages
French, English
Memberships
Thomas teaches at Sciences Po Paris. He is also an active member of the competition community in France, being a member of APDC (Association des Praticiens du Droit de la Concurrence) and AFEC (Association Française d’Etude de la Concurrence).
He is a regular contributor to the European Cartel Digest published by Kluwer.
Education
Thomas is admitted both to the Paris and the New York bars. He graduated from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and Cornell Law School (New York). He was a laureate of the Fulbright Commission’s Georges Lurcy fellowship.
Lawyer Rankings
France > EU, competition and distribution
(Leading individuals)Linklaters fields a sizeable EU and competition law team, with deep expertise across the full spectrum of merger control cases, abuse of dominance and cartel investigations, state aid issues and follow-on damages litigation (where the firm has a growing practice, acting for both claimants and defendants). The group is well equipped to take on both French and EU law mandates, frequently joining up with the Brussels and other offices to handle multi-jurisdictional cases. Anne Wachsmann
is well regarded for her broad practice, with significant recent experience in high-profile merger control matters, while Pierre Zelenko and Thomas Elkins have been active in major cases in the food and beverages, banking and automotive sectors, among others. Nicolas Zacharie and Matthieu Blayney provide key support. Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson left the firm in early 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
- EU, competition and distribution France
- Leading individuals France > EU, competition and distribution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: LBO
- Real estate
- Tax
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Private equity: Fund formation