Joffrey Sigrist is an experienced lawyer with ten years’ experience in the competition law field. He is General Counsel of Verisure Securitas Direct (Paris). Prior to be promoted to this position, Joffrey was Senior Legal Counsel of the Pomona Group (wholesaler in food products), having previously worked for SFR (Telecommunications services) and as a lawyer with Fourgoux & Partners and Castaldi Mourre & Partners. He has developed competence in the areas of mergers, antitrust law, distribution and restrictive practices. His experience spans sectors such as telecommunications, distribution & wholesale, food industry. He graduated from Paris Assas University (1997), Paris Panthéon Sorbonne University (1998), and Paris Bar (2000).
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Description of the impugned case In a case of a franchising agreement, the franchisor recommended to franchisees to respect a maximum price during promotional and non-promotional period. The French competition Council considers that the pricing policy implemented by the franchisor was not (...)
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Description of the impugned case Regarding to the facts, French competition Council showed that all pricing policy of distributors contrary to the price floor determined by the supplier, even on a short period, should be assimilated to a systematic discount prohibited by the supplier. (...)
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Description of the impugned case A French syndicate of producers imposed to distributors a resale price maintenance in order to stop importation of strawberries from Spain. The investigation showed clearly that syndicate threatened to apply retaliations and boycott measures. In (...)
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Description of the impugned case In a franchising network, franchisor sent to each franchisee pre-printed and standardized documents including amount of rebates and fixe fees. The appeal Court has considered that diffusion of standards documents was a huge incitation to apply rebates and (...)
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Description of the impugned case Before the criminal court, an action was introduced in order to condemn the resale price maintenance imposed by a supplier to its clients. Indeed, the investigation showed that the supplier indicated in its general commercials conditions a minimum resale (...)
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Description of the impugned case The investigation showed that the supplier imposed to some of its clients a minimum ratio on price and threatened of retaliations measures in a case of non respect of it. Moreover, a strict control was also insured directly by the supplier in order to check (...)
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This article brings together contributions from the second panel of the AFEC’s General Assembly of 20 June 2013 in Paris dedicated to the regulation of commercial practices INTRODUCTION Jean-Patrice DE LAURENCIE Lawyer at the Paris Bar 1. It is an honour for which I thank the (...)
