Comparative Guide
Competition Litigation
France
Antoine Labaeye & Marie Missimilly
A top regulatory and competition boutique, Fréget Glaser & Associés also handles a solid amount of commercial litigation on behalf of a prominent client base, including leading TMT, healthcare, energy and telecoms companies. The practice notably manages high-stakes antitrust and regulatory-related commercial litigation, such as major follow-on, abuse of dominant position, unfair competition and misleading commercial practice cases. The team also handles some corporate litigation, while it regularly represents clients before various public regulators. The practice is co-headed by competition law experts Olivier Fréget, Liliana Eskenazi, Antoine Labaeye and Elsa Thauvin.
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Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Key clients
- JOHNSON AND JOHNSON
- PMU
- TRANSATLANTIS FUNDING PARTNERS
- TOTAL ENERGIES
- FRANCAISE DE L’ENERGIE
- EKWATEUR
- ANODE
- ILIAD (FREE MOBILE and FREE)
- ALTITUDE
- GROUPE CANAL PLUS
- MERIDIAM
- IFT
Work highlights
Advising a litigation fund on launching, in collaboration with major trade associations, a major collective follow-on action against meal voucher issuers, consolidating claims from over 10,000 plaintiffs for a total claimed amount exceeding EUR 500 million.
Acting for Free Mobile before the Paris Court of Appeal in the follow-up to a first-instance ruling in which the Paris Commercial Court ordered Bouygues Telecom to pay €308 million in damages for misleading commercial practices that deceived consumers.
Acting for Total Direct Energie in a litigation against EDF to obtain the recognition of its right to activate the hardship clause (force majeure) in its contract for regulated access to historical nuclear electricity during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to obtain compensation for damages.
Practice head
Olivier Fréget; Liliana Eskenazi; Antoine Labaeye; Elsa Thauvin