Maxime de l’Estang serves as global senior competition counsel for Unilever in Rotterdam. Prior to this role, he worked as counsel for Willkie Farr & Gallagher in Brussels where he practiced in all areas of antitrust law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance and State aids. Maxime de l’Estang has collaborated in a number of articles, particularly in the field of merger control. He graduated from the University Paris 2-Assas and the New York University School of Law, and is admitted to the bar in Paris, New York and Brussels (e-list).
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On 5 October 2020, the General Court of the European Union (the “General Court”) confirmed the 2017 decision by the European Commission (the “Commission”) to prohibit the proposed acquisition by HeidelbergCement and Schwenk of Cemex Croatia (the “HeidelbergCement case”). In its judgment, the (...)
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The European Commission (the “Commission”), which has exclusive jurisdiction to review State aid cases, has demonstrated its intention, and ability, to react rapidly to requests from Member States in the rescue of distressed companies as a result of the Covid-19 crisis affecting the European (...)
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The acquisition of SFR by Numericable, a subsidiary of the Altice Group, was authorized by the French Competition Authority (the "Authority") on October 30, 2014 (Decision No. 14-DCC-160), subject to commitments (the "Operation"). The Authority considered that the Operation was likely to (...)
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On 25 January 2017, the European Commission (the "Commission") approved the acquisition of Alere, a US company specialising in diagnostic solutions for infectious and cardio-metabolic diseases and toxicology, by Abbott Laboratories ("Abbott"), a US medical device giant listed on the New York (...)
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Following a resolution of the European Parliament of 19 January 2016 on the European Union’s competition policy (2015/2140 INI), Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, in a speech delivered on 10 March in Brussels, questioned the relevance of the notification thresholds in (...)
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On 4 February 2016, the European Commission (the "Commission") cleared, subject to conditions, the acquisition of BASE Belgium (³cBASE³d), the third largest mobile network operator (³cMNO³d) in Belgium, by Liberty Global, a cable operator active in the Belgian market via Telenet and operating (...)
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Final episode of the long Odile Jacob saga (see our article in the present review Concurrencesn°4-2010, p. 160).). In this judgment, the Court of Justice of the EU (the "Court") dismissed the appeal brought by Éditions Odile Jacob ("Odile Jacob") against the judgment of the Court of First (...)
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By Decision No. 13-D-22 of December 20, 2013, the French Competition Authority (hereinafter the "Authority") sanctioned Copagef SA, at the head of the Castel Frères group (hereinafter "Castel"), in the amount of 4 million euros for failing to comply with the obligation to provide prior (...)
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On 10 July 2013, the Competition Authority adopted its Revised Merger Control Guidelines following a consultation process on a draft that the Authority published last February, which attracted 18 contributions from industry associations, economists and law firms (see (...)
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On 7 June 2013, the General Court of the European Union (the "General Court") dismissed the action brought by SPAR against European Commission (the "Commission") decision COMP/M.5047 of 23 June 2008 authorising REWE, a leading food retail group in Austria, to acquire sole control of ADEG, a (...)
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On 24 May 2013, the European Commission (the ’Commission’) had cleared, subject to commitments, the merger between two specialty paper producers, Munksjö AB (’Munksjö’) and the labels and converting division of Ahlstrom Corporation (’Ahlstrom’). In the course of the Commission’s in-depth (...)
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On September 21, 2012, the European Commission (the "Commission") conditionally approved the acquisition of sole control of the core business of UK-based EMI Group Global Limited ("EMI") by Universal Music Group ("Universal", together the "Parties"), a subsidiary of French media and (...)
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Eur. Com. dec. art. 6, § 1(b) R.139/2004, 5 July 2012, SCA/ Georgia-Pacific Europe, case COMP/ M.6455. The European Commission (the ³cCommission³d) has approved, subject to commitments, the acquisition of sole control of Georgia-Pacific Europe (³cGPE³d), the European arm of the US company (...)
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Aut. conc, 02.07.12, N° 12-DCC-92, Acquisition of six companies of the Patriarchal Group by the company Castel Frères The French Competition Authority (the "Authority") has authorized, after a "phase II" review, the acquisition and acquisition of exclusive control by the Castel Frères group (...)
