Juliette Goyer is an award-winning competition lawyer. Before running her own practice, she spent over 20 years in major global law firms including Coudert Brothers, Norton Rose Fulbright and White & Case LLP where she was Counsel until 2017. Her expertise covers the entire competition law field with a particular focus on merger control, cartels, abuses of dominance, horizontal co-operative agreements, distribution and IP transfer agreements. Juliette is also a board member of the Association of French Competition Law Attorneys (APDC). She graduated from the University of Paris 2 - Panthéon Assas where she obtained a Master degree and an LLM in Intellectual Property Law.
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In merger control, gun-jumping refers to two distinct types of prohibited practices: failure to notify authorities of a transaction triggering merger thresholds, and implementing a notified transaction before receiving merger clearance from the relevant merger authority. Both behaviours can (...)
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On 26 February 2013, the French Competition Authority (“Autorité de la concurrence”) announced the launch of a pharma sector inquiry. The Autorité ’s main goal is to address the cost of prescription medicines for social security, the high prices of non-reimbursable medicines, and the low level (...)
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Following a commitment procedure, the French NCA issued a decision on 5 July 2012 making compulsory the commitments submitted by several French banks (Banque de France, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Crédit du Nord, LCL, BPCE, HSBC, Banque Postale, Crédit Mutuel, CIC) and their representative (...)
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On October 4, 2011, the delegate of the first President of the Paris Court of Appeal issued three orders relating to competition search and seizure operations conducted by the French National Competition Authority (the «NCA«) at the premises of TNT Express and TNT Express France («TNT«), SARL (...)
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On 16 May 2011, the Autorité de la concurrence, the French competition authority (the Autorité), unveiled its guidelines (the Communiqué) relating to the setting of financial penalties in antitrust cases. The Communiqué promised to herald a new, more sophisticated approach to competition law (...)
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BACKGROUND In 2005, the French Competition Authority – (hereafter the “FCA”, previously the Competition Council) fined Panasonic, Sony France and Philips France for anticompetitive vertical agreements – retail price fixing – in the distribution of consumer electronics (decision No. 05-D-66 (...)
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In a ruling dated 26 January 2010, the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed a decision by the French National Competition Authority (the “NCA”) sanctioning world-leading companies in the temporary employment sector for infringing Article 81 EC and its French equivalent. Background Following a (...)
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Background The Competition Authority (thereafter “Authority”) dismisses alleged practices of predatory pricing and discriminatory practices in the market for renting of plastic bins and pallets in France implemented by the leader in the French market, Chep France (hereafter “Chep”), a (...)
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On 7 July 2009, the French Supreme Court rebutted a case dated 6 May 2008 by the Paris Court of Appeal partially annulling a decision by the French National Competition Authority (the “NCA”) sanctioning two French cement manufacturers, Lafarge and Vicat, and their main distributors in Corsica (...)
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On 17 March 2009, the French Supreme Court confirmed a case dated 8 April 2008 in which the Paris Court of Appeal overruled a decision by the French NCA (the “NCA”) sanctioning GlaxoSmithLine (“GSK”) for predatory pricing in the market for sodic cefuroxime. Background This case does not (...)
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In a decision n° 08-D-25 dated 29 October 2008 (hereinafter the “Decision”), the French Competition Council sanctioned Pierre Fabre Dermo-cosmétique for prohibiting its selected distributors from selling personal care and cosmetic products under the Klorane, Avène, Ducray and Galénic brands on (...)
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In its decision dated 11 June 2008, the French Competition Council sanctioned four companies that tendered to a servicing of premises bid launched by a Public Office for moderate-rent housing, for violating Articles 81 of the EC Treaty and its French equivalent, article L. 420-1 of the (...)
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In a decision dated 7 May 2008, the French Competition Council dismissed both the referral and the request for interim measures lodged by the Association for network operators and telecommunication services (“AFORST”) against France Television and France Telecom regarding an exclusive (...)
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In a decision dated 7 May 2008, the French Competition Council dismissed both the referral and the request for interim measures lodged by the Association for network operators and telecommunication services (“AFORST”) against France Television and France Telecom regarding an exclusive (...)
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In a case dated 28 August 2007, the Court of Appeal of the city of Pau confirmed a judgment by the Tribunal de Grande Instance of Mont de Marsan in which the first judge annulled a Commissioning contract for violation of Article L. 420-1 of the French Commercial Code, the French equivalent of (...)
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French Competition Council (Conseil de la Concurrence), 24 January 2007, Decision n° 07-D-04, rregarding practices implemented by the Jeff de Bruges franchise network (“relative à des pratiques mises en œuvre par le réseau de franchise Jeff de Bruges”) In a decision dated 24 January 2007, (...)
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Competition Council (Conseil de la concurrence), 5 October 2006, Opinion 06-A-18, regarding an occupancy indicator project of Mulhouse region hotels (“relatif à un projet d’indicateur d’occupation des hôtels de la région de Mulhouse”) The Background Following a request lodged by the (...)
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In its decision issued on 21 July 2006, the French Competition Council fined NGK Spark Plugs France (hereinafter “NGK France”), a French subsidiary of NGK Japan, active in the French market for spark plugs for two-wheel vehicles, for breach of both article 81 of the EC treaty and its French (...)
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The French Competition Council issued on the 14 April 2006 an opinion regarding the application of French and EC antitrust rules (Articles L. 420-1 and L. 420-2 of the French Commercial Code and Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty) regarding the fruit and vegetables sector in the French (...)
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In a decision dated 17 November 2005 (Decision n° 05-D-63), the French Competition Council sanctioned La Poste, the French postal service, for abusing its dominant position and imposed €1 million fine based on both Article L. 420-2 of the French Commercial Code and Article 82 of the EC Treaty. (...)
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In a recent decision, dated 12 October 2005 (Decision n° 05-D-55), the French Competition Council sanctioned the Comité Interprofessionnel des huiles essentielles françaises (“CIHEF”), a trade association composed of both producers and buyers of essential oils, for fixing minimum wholesale (...)
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This is a set of 5 articles on Resale Price Maintenance. This topic has recently been debated following the US Supreme Court Leegin ruling and the draft French reform of the antitrust act. The first article is written by 2 leading economists on the economic debate on the welfare effects of (...)
