Jacques-Philippe Gunther
Latham & Watkins (Paris)
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Jacques-Philippe Gunther is a partner in the Litigation Department of Latham & Watkins in Paris and Brussels, where he heads the firm’s European competition and antitrust practice. Mr. Gunther is widely recognized as one of Europe’s leading competition law specialists by the French and European antitrust authorities. Mr. Gunther is known for his expertise advising clients on European and national merger filings and in complex disputes before the European Commission, French antitrust authorities, French Courts and the European Court of Justice. He is also one of the most recognized experts in the field of State Aid. Mr. Gunther has particular experience in the media, telecommunications, defense, energy and financial sectors. Mr. Gunther is a former president of the F.N.U.JA (Fédération des Unions de Jeunes Avocats, Federation of the Union of Young Lawyers) and is a member of the A.F.E.C. (Association Française d’Etude de la Concurrence, French Association of antitrust). He is also a former member of the National Council of the Bars (C.N.B.). Prior to joining Willkie, Mr. Gunther led the antitrust and competition practice that he started in the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus in 1999. Prior to Freshfields, he was with Gide Loyrette Nouel (Paris and Brussels), where he began his career.
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Belgian Competition Authority vs. International Equestrian Authority: second round* On April 28, 2016, the Brussels Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (“FEI”) of an injunction issued by the Belgian Competition Authority (the “BCA”) that suspended the (...)
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During the Seminar organized the 9th of June of 2005, Jean-Charles Rochet and Jacques-Philippe Gunther talked about competitive issues in the banking sector. The seminar was animed by Anne Perrot, vice-president of the Competition Authority. Created at the end of the 1980s within the (...)
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During the Nasse Seminar organized the 19th of January of 2015, Jacques-Philippe Gunther and Patrick Rey talked about the sanctions inflicted to the anti-competitive practices. This seminar was presented by Emmanuel Massé. Created at the end of the 1980s within the Forecasting Department, the (...)
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During the Nasse Seminar organized the 27th of September of 2017, Anne Perrot (associate at the consulting firm MAPP) and Jacques-Philippe Gunther (lawyer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP) talked about excessive prices. The seminar was animed by Etienne Pfister, chief of economic (...)
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The setting of standards through standard-setting organisations gives rise to two main kinds of problems: royalty-stacking, due to the complementarity of the IPRs involved and hold-up. FRAND commitments are meant to deal with the second issue only. DG Competition is currently investigating (...)
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This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the commitments organized by Concurrences Review that has held on 10th May 2011 in Paris. Commitments for both mergers and unilateral practices represent what may be considered a bright outcome, from the perspective of (...)
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Ce Tendances revient sur le débat qu’a ravivé l’affaire Aer Lingus/Ryanair autour du traitement des participations minoritaires dans le contrôle des concentrations. La difficulté principale tient dans le point de savoir si, et dans quelle mesure, le droit des concentrations doit s’appliquer aux (...)
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La première table-ronde de la conférence New Frontiers of Antitrust du 11 février 2011 à Paris est dédiée au «Patent ambush». Après avoir discuté des lacunes inhérentes au système des brevets, M. Carlton, Professeur d’économie à l’université de Chicago et auteur de la première contribution, s’intéresse à (...)
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Aut. conc. dec. no. 11-DCC-07 of 28 January 2011 relating to the creation of a full-function joint venture by La Poste and SFR Since the full liberalisation of the mail market on 1 January 2011, La Poste has been operating only on markets open to competition. The approved transaction will (...)
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Eur. comm., dec. art. 6, §2 R.139/2004 of January 26, 2011, GDF Suez/International Power, case COMP/M.5978 The pace of concentration in the electricity sector continues unabated, a sign that the liberalisation of European markets has prompted national players to expand and diversify their (...)
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Aut. conc. dec. no. 10-DCC-198 of December 30, 2010 relating to the creation of a joint venture by Veolia Environnement and the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations The Competition Authority gives a special place to markets operating by invitation to tender. While it emphasised the special nature (...)
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This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the vertical agreements and exclusivities organised by Concurrences Review and held on 1st July 2010 in Paris. The first paper is a short introduction by Prof. Anne Perrot aimed at briefly introducing the relevant notions. The (...)
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EC Commission, 12 November 2009, EDF/SEGEBEL, Case COMP/M.5549 The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of sole control by EDF (France) of Segebel (Belgium), a holding company whose only asset is a 51% stake in SPE S.A., the second largest (...)
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Presentation Laurence Idot Professor, Universtité Paris II, European College Director of the Scientific Committee of Concurrences 1. It is in my capacity as head of the journalConcurrences’s scientific committee that I was asked to make this morning’s presentation. I confess that I failed in (...)
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The proceedings of this colloquium are organised in two parts. In the first stage, the two main axes of the reform are studied: In substantive terms, the aim of the Community reform is to introduce a more economic analysis of aid in this area too. Following the presentation made by Ms Rabassa (...)
