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Pierre Honoré

Pierre Honoré

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Bredin Prat

Bredin Prat

France

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EU, competition and distribution

Bredin Prat houses a formidable EU, competition and distribution law offering, acting for an impressive roster of leading French and global companies in the most complex and sophisticated cases to come before the French and European courts and competition authorities. The team has a stellar record of handling landmark merger control, cartel, vertical restraints and abuse of dominance cases, state aid matters, and follow-on damages litigation. Olivier Billard, Igor Simic, Marie-Cécile Rameau, Yelena Trifounovitch, Pierre Honoré and Arthur Helfer jointly lead the practice, bringing to bear extensive experience across the full spectrum of competition law.
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Phone
+33 1 44 35 35 35
Email
[email protected]
Profile
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Profile

Work Department
Competition and EU Law
Position

Partner

Career

Pierre Honoré, Partner at Bredin Prat, is a member of the Competition team and the head of the firm’s Brussels office.

He regularly represents clients before the French and European courts and competition authorities, in particular in cartel, abuse of dominance and merger control investigations.

He lectured on competition law at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris from 2017 to 2022 and regularly publishes articles in competition law reviews.

Languages
French, English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Memberships
Admitted to the Paris Bar (2005) and New York Bar (2007)
Education

Pierre Honoré is a graduate of the University of Paris 10 Nanterre (Maîtrise, 2002), the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (2004), the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Master’s in Law and Economic Globalization, 2004) and the University of California – Berkeley School of Law (LL.M., 2007).

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'Exceptional competition law practice in France - this is true for each individual in the team. Impressive.'
  • 'In my mind, Pierre Honoré stands out. He is the person I usually go to when I have matters in France, and he always performs exceptionally well. Also very strong in EU competition law.  I would strongly recommend Arthur Helfer for FDI work in France.'

Key clients

  • Agrial
  • Airbus

Work highlights

Providing merger control advice in relation to several transactions before the European Commission and the French Competition Authority, including the acquisition of SAS by Air France-KLM and the joint venture between Airbus, Thales and Leonardo, and Fnac Darty’s public tender offer for Italy’s Unieuro.