Alexandra Lamothe is a senior associate at Gide Loyrette Nouel law firm, working both for the Paris and Brussels offices. She specialises in the field of French and EU competition law (antitrust, state aids, mergers) as well as in distribution (unfair commercial practices, distribution networks, etc.) and consumer law (defective products, misleading and comparative advertising, etc.). Alexandra holds a master’s degree in business law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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A merger operation can entail coordinated effects when it leads to a market structure enabling the firms within it to adopt or ensure more effective coordination of their competitive behaviour even without entering into an agreement or resorting to a concerted practice. Concern over (...)
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On 23rd May 2001 a case has been submitted by the Syndicat National des Exploitants de Distributeurs Automatiques de Vidéocassettes et de DVD (SNEDAVI: national association of the video cassette and DVD dispenser operators) to the French Competition Council regarding the practices used by a (...)
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The case had been brought before the Competition Council by an armourer, following the termination by BWF of its commercial relationship with the manufacturer, which leads the French firearms’ market along with Beretta-Benelli France. The Council considered that BWF had established an (...)
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Court of Cassation (Commercial Division), 14 December 2004, Pourvoi n° 02-17.012, Pharma Lab SA v. Glaxosmithkline GSK, and others ; Bull. 2004, IV, n° 225, p. 254 Doc. sur Legifrance Doc. PDF On 14 December 2004, the Court of Cassation quashed a judgement of the Paris Court of Appeal for (...)
2013 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
