Alice Blanchet is head of legal and compliance department for GLS France since May 2015. Prior to joining GLS, she worked in the antitrust group in the Davis Polk Paris office. Her practice covered different aspects of French and EU competition law, including merger notifications, anticompetitive agreements and questions relative to dominant position abuses. She was admitted to the Paris bar in 2005.
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The acquisition by the Castel group of six subsidiaries of the Patriarche group had especially marked the briefs because it was the first decision in which the Competition Authority had used the UPP test (V. la déc. 12-DCC-92, v. égal. D. Tayar and M. de l’Estang "The Competition Authority (...)
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Faced with a reduction from four to three competitors or, worse, from three to two competitors, a competition authority must be vigilant. These market developments, more often referred to in English as "four to three" or "three to two" - more rarely referred to in French as "quatre-à-trois" or (...)
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"For simpler, more coherent and strategic merger control in Europe". How can one not subscribe to such a programme? The report of the French Competition Authority of 16 December 2013 to the Minister for the Economy and Finance of which this is the title is already better known under the name of (...)
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When the French Competition Authority authorized, on July 23, 2012, Canal Plus to acquire from the Bolloré group exclusive control of the Direct 8 and Direct Star channels, this decision was partially overshadowed by another decision issued the same day by the Authority, which again authorized (...)
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Food distribution is still by far the sector of activity that gives rise to the greatest number of concentration operations in France. It accounted for 34% of decisions in 2012. Most often, these are cases that have a happy ending. Commitments are rare. Phases 2 are exceptional. Casino’s (...)
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Eur. com. dec. art. 22, § 3 R. 139/2004 of 4 July 2012, London Stock Exchange / LCH Clearnet, aff. COMP/M.6502 This is a concentration that did not have a Community dimension within the meaning of Regulation 139/2004. However, the acquisition of LCH Clearnet by the London Stock Exchange (...)
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EC, Dec. 21, 2012, Canal Plus, No. 353856 EC, Dec. 21, 2012, Canal Plus, No. 362347 One of the qualities generally recognized at Canal Plus is its talent for producing successful series with large audiences. The interest generated by the story of its acquisition of TPS was certainly neither (...)
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Aut. conc. dec. no. 12-DCC-129 of 5 September 2012 relating to the acquisition of exclusive control of the Keolis group by SNCF Participations. While the change from joint to sole control undoubtedly constitutes a change in the quality of control exercised by the shareholders and thus a (...)
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Aut. Concord, decree n° 12-D-15 of 9 July 2012 relating to compliance with the commitments contained in the decision authorising the acquisition of Socopa Viandes by Groupe Bigard. After Canal+’s conviction in 2011 for failure to comply with the commitments that had conditioned the authorization (...)
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Aut. conc. dec. no. 11-DCC-187 of December 13, 2011 relating to the acquisition of exclusive control of Quartier Français Spiritueux by Compagnie Financière Européenne de Prise de Participation Rum in non-negligible quantities, a few other alcohols and spirits, in varying proportions, barriers to (...)
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Aut. conc. dec. no. 11-D-12 of September 20, 2011 relating to compliance with the commitments contained in the decision authorizing the acquisition of TPS and CanalSatellite by Vivendi Universal and Canal Plus Group That first time, Canal Plus would have been fine! On September 21, 2011, the (...)
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Eur. comm. 24 February 2006, Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company/Lanitis Bros. case COMP/M.4124, published 31 March 2011 It took particular patience to read the decision in Case M. 4124 - Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company/Lanitis Bros, where the Commission rejected the request for referral (...)
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Comm. eur., dec. art. 6, §2 R.139/2004 of 26 January 2011, Intel/McAfee, case COMP/M.5984 "Intel inside": even in a Commission decision, this arouses the curiosity and interest of the competition law specialist. Taking an interest because Intel is known as much for its chips as for its (...)
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The Competition Authority reached full speed with its merger control practice in 2010, clearing 198 mergers, including two cases in phase 2 decisions. Merger control regulations which were transferred from the DGCCRF to the Competition Authority only recently, in 2009 have been well integrated (...)
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Trib. EU, 6 July 2010, Aer Lingus Group v. Commission, Case T-411/07 There’s passion, there’s passion in this Irish story. Three days after the Irish Stock Exchange floated the Irish national airline Aer Lingus on the Dublin Stock Exchange, its major low-cost competitor Ryanair launched a (...)
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Eur. comm., 6 January 2010, Kraft Foods/Cadbury, Case COMP/M.5644 There are some products for which market tests can be more testing than others. In order to properly assess the competitive effects of the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft Foods, the European Commission has examined with the utmost (...)
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ECJ, 19 July 2009, Commission v Schneider Electric SA, Case C-440/07 P The Schneider/Legrand merger will have given the European Commission a lot of trouble. This time it’s over: the Court has whistled the end of the game. But there were so many twists and turns before it came to this! All in (...)
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EC Commission, 21 October 2008, StatoilHydro / ConocoPhillips, Case COMP/M.4919 In March 2007 the Commission had cleared the merger between Statoil and Norsk Hydro in the first phase and without conditions (Case COMP/M.4545), thus giving an easy blessing to this marriage between two oil and (...)
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Eur. Com, 09.08.2005, Carlyle / Otor, case COMP/M.3870 The principle laid down in Article 7(1) of Regulation 139/2004 is unequivocal: a concentration notified to the Commission must not be put into effect until it has been cleared by the Commission. And forgetting the notification, and (...)
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