Mr. Saint-Esteben is a partner at Bredin Prat and the head of the firm’s competition practice. Consistently ranked first among competition lawyers in international guides, Mr. Saint-Esteben has established a reputation as one of France’s leading experts on French and European competition law. In addition, he has substantial experience in commercial litigation and arbitration. Mr. Saint-Esteben has published numerous books and articles in the field of competition law including "Droits Communautaires et Droits Nationaux" 1967; "Une Concentration Internationale d’Entreprises, L’Affaire Continental Can", 1972; "Chronique de droit communautaire: Développements du droit communautaire de la concurrence" DPCI 667, 1988; and Les Concentrations in Jurisclasseur Europe, I, 1991. Mr. Saint-Esteben holds degrees from the University of Paris; the University of Paris Law School (Licence, 1964); the Ecole Nationale des Impôts, 1964; Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures de Droit Privé, 1965; Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures de Sciences Criminelles, 1967; Diplôme du Centre Universitaire d’Etudes des Communautés Européennes, CEE, 1966. Mr. Saint-Esteben was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1975. He is also fluent in English.
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The General Rapporteur (Rapporteur Général) of the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) intends to use the procedure provided for under article 40 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure in order to increase the effectiveness of the Competition Authority’s work, in particular (...)
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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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The editorial deals with the question of the responsibility of parent companies with respect to breaches of competition rules by their subsidiaries. However the responsibility regime of parent companies is significantly different from that governing the application of competition rules in (...)
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The French Competition Authority has been given a new power by the legislator: it can order structural injunctions when the price conditions charged by a dominant undertaking are unusually high on the French overseas territories. Clearly, this legal instrument is sui generis in France. It is so (...)
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Introductory remarks Laurence Idot Professor, Universtité Paris II, European College Director of the Scientific Committee of Concurrences 1. Mr President of the Commercial Court, Ladies and Gentlemen. Today is a first, and I am pleased about it. It is indeed the first time that an AFEC (...)
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At the beginning of 2007, the magazine Concurrences published the cross interviews of the two main candidates in the French presidential election. Ms. Ségolène Royal and Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to contribute to the debate by answering a series of questions on national and Community competition (...)
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