FRANCE Law and Practice Contributed by: Emmanuel Reille, Dimitri Dimitrov, Franck Audran, Laura Castex and Elizabeth Gautier, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Gide Loyrette Nouel was founded in Paris in 1920 and is a leading international law firm, with 11 offices worldwide. With 550 lawyers, including more than 100 partners, the firm offers legal advice and assis - tance across many disciplines to public and private sector institutions. Gide boasts a wealth of experi - ence in antitrust procedures (cartels and abuse of dominant position) before the French Competition Authority, other national competition authorities, and the EC. In addition, the firm has extensive expertise
in private enforcement cases before commercial and civil courts ‒ both in standalone and follow-on actions ‒ and has gained extensive expertise in managing se - lective distribution networks for brand owners (ana - lysing their agreements in light of antitrust rules), as well as in the fight against grey-market players. Gide is also active in merger control before the EC and the French Competition Authority, as well as before na - tional competition authorities outside the EU.
Authors
Emmanuel Reille is a partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel and has a practice that covers all issues relating to French and EU competition law. Emmanuel regularly advises major French and foreign companies on
Dimitri Dimitrov is a partner at Gide Loyrette Nouel, with extensive experience of both advice and litigation in all fields of economic law. He is notably experienced in the field of co-operation agreements and
matters pertaining to cartels, abuse of dominance, disputes before the French Competition Authority and French courts, and notifications of concentration before the French and EU competition institutions. He also assists clients in trade disputes involving unfair competition, breach of commercial relations, etc. Emmanuel is a member of the Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence (APDC) and his extensive expertise in competition law extends to Africa, where he has been involved in major antitrust cases.
distribution, in France and abroad, and represents companies in litigation proceedings before French and EU authorities (with regard to vertical practices, cartels, and abuse of dominant position) and courts (in relation to claims for compensation, agency law, sudden termination of established commercial relationships, and other restrictive practices). Dimitri advises French and foreign companies on a regular basis on the implementation of compliance programmes and merger control. He has recently handled several complex multi-jurisdictional merger control cases.
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