Michaël Cousin is a Partner at Ashurst LLP (Paris). He specialises in all aspects of French and EU competition law as well as in sectoral regulation. He has been involved in a number of complex mergers and high-profile antitrust cases before French and EU authorities and courts. His practice also covers follow-on damage actions and State aids. Michaël has an extensive experience assisting international clients in a number of sectors including energy, financial services, consumer goods, distribution and railways transport. He graduated from the universities of Warwick (UK) and Sarrebruecken (Ger.) and obtained a postgratuate degree in EC law from Paris II - Panthéon Assas where he now gives lectures. Michaël is General-Rapporteur of the French Competition Law Society (Association française d’Etude de la Concurrence).
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On 8 April 2020, the European Commission ("Commission") published a Temporary Framework Communication ("Communication") to provide antitrust guidance to companies cooperating in response to urgent situations related to the Covid-19 outbreak. The Commission also announced that it issued a (...)
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On 16 March 2020, the French Competition Authority ("FCA") announced that it had fined Apple EUR1.1 billion, the highest fine ever imposed to an undertaking, for having implemented vertical agreements with certain of its distributors and an abuse of economic dependency against its independent (...)
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The French Consumer Act of 17 March 2014 - the Hamon Law - introduced a class action system into French Law under articles L. 423-1 to L. 423-26 of the Consumer code. Based on an "opt- in" format, consumer associations play a major part in this process. Following the adoption of the (...)
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This On-Topic discusses the development of algorithmic pricing and the issues it raises for competition law enforcers. Algorithmic pricing may facilitate tacit or express collusion and even generate new forms of collusion against which traditional tools of competition law enforcement must be (...)
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The conference that took place in Paris on 26th of June, 2015 provided the opportunity to return to the actuality of intellectual property law and competition law. Simon Corbineau-Picci and Pauline Debré open the debates about the rights and duties of the holder of an essential patent to the (...)
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The file assesses the impact of the Macron law on competition law related issues. More particularly, five articles examine the legislator’s will to introduce changes with respect to the role of the Competition Authority. Two articles analyze the changes brought by the Law to competition (...)
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On 9 July 2014, the European Commission published its White Paper - Towards More Effective EU Merger control and invited third parties to submit comments. This White Paper mainly focuses on the control of non-controling minority shareholdgins which the Commission intends to control through a (...)
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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 LA LAURENCIE Avocat au barreau de Paris 1. C’est un honneur dont je remercie les (...)
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Both aspects of the grocery retail sector regulation, i.e. the rules on unfair behaviours and those governing the market structures have evolved in different ways since 2005. Further to the Competition Authority’s opinion of 17 December 2010 discussions moved toward the relevance of more (...)
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The law establishing a New Organisation for the Electricty Market provides for a temporary regulation which aims at removing the obstacles to the development of competition on the French electricity market. Its purpose is in particular to solve the margin squeeze resulting from the difference (...)
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Aut. conc., déc. n° 10-D-39 du 22 décembre 2010 relative à des pratiques mises en œuvre dans le secteur de la signalisation routière verticale La présente affaire, relative à un cartel de répartition des marchés publics sur le marché de la signalisation routière et à laquelle sont venues se greffer des (...)
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ECHR, 21 December 2010, Canal Plus a.o. v. France, 29408/08 ECHR, 21 December 2010, Primagaz v. France, 29613/08 Les arrêts Canal Plus et Primagaz de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme («CEDH») seront probablement lourds de conséquences dans les contentieux en cours qui ont donné lieu, à (...)
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Aut. conc., déc. n° 10-D-21 du 30 juin 2010 relative au respect, par les sociétés Neopost France et Satas, des engagements pris dans la décision du Conseil de la concurrence n° 05-D-49 du 25 juillet 2005 La décision Neopost c/ Satas est la première par laquelle l’AdlC sanctionne le non-respect (...)
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Cass. com., 15 juin 2010, Ajinomoto Eurolysine c/ Doux aliments Bretagne e.a., n° 09-15816 Alors que cette fin d’année est marquée par la relance au niveau communautaire des débats sur l’action privée (v. not. J. Alumnia, “Common standards for group claims across the EU”, Speech 10/554 du 15 oct. (...)
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The present study comments on the Ordinance of 13 November 2008 on the Modernisation of the Regulation of Competition. This legal instrument changes in several respects the legal framework applying to anti-competitive practices. It extends the competences of the new Autorité de la Concurrence (...)
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The multiplication of "market authorities" - competition authorities and sectoral regulators - and the development of their means of action on the market raise the question of the coherence and the convergence of the institutional and procedural framework in which they operate. After a general (...)
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1. Comme le montrent les réflexions en cours au sujet d’une approche plus économique de l’article 82 CE ou du contrôle des aides d’État, les autorités de concurrence sont confrontées à la nécessité constante de faire correspondre la règle de droit à la règle de raison économique. Le (...)
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