Nathalie Lobel-Lastmann is a French lawyer and a UK solicitor. She joined the Markets and Projects’ group of the Office of Fair Trading in 2008. Her practice focuses on UK and EC cartels and behavioural matters across a variety of sectors. Prior to this, Nathalie gained significant experience in merger control and antitrust laws within the competition team of Fried Frank in London and Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier in Paris. She has advised corporate clients in large cross-border transactions and high-profile antitrust litigation with a particular focus on media and private equity matters. Nathalie was educated in France (LLM in European Law and MBA at EM Lyon) and in Toronto (MBA at York University). She contributed to the sixth edition of the Bellamy & Child handbook as the correspondent editor for France. She is a member of the Competition Law Association and the co-founder of the French legal advice clinic in London.
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Summary In 2012 the low-cost company Ryanair flew twice to the Court of Appeal in the UK, in an attempt to further explore the duty of sincere cooperation between national competition authorities and the European institutions. Ryanair did not get good value for money: at both occasions it (...)
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In its provisional report of July 16, 2009, the Competition Commission (CC) has attempted to demonstrate to which extent a “cap in growth” of supermarkets in highly concentrated areas is beneficial to consumers. In its previous report 30 April 2008, the CC recommended that the expansion of (...)
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The Marine Hoses Cartel has been a test case on several grounds: parallel and coordinated dawn raids by the European Commission, the OFT and the US DoJ; first criminal prosecution to be brought under the new Criminal Cartel Offence in the UK; use of DVD covertly recording of a cartel meeting (...)
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In one of the most significant private action cases dealt with in a UK civil court in the past few years, the High Court has handed down its judgment in a dispute opposing half of UK racecourses and the main bookmakers. Justice Morgan dismissed betting shops’ claim, finding that the collective (...)
