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Romain Ferla

Weil, Gotshal & Manges (Paris)

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Romain Ferla joined Weil Gotshal and Manges in 2010. He is an antitrust/competition partner in the firm’s Paris office. Romain Ferla has significant experience in European Union and French competition law matters, including merger control, investigation of cartels or abuses of dominance, and advising on distribution agreements (containing vertical restraints), cooperation agreements with joint ventures, and state aids and state measures distorting competition. Mr. Ferla’s successful track record in antitrust litigation includes defending and representing a wide range of clients before French courts and in administrative proceedings before the European Union and French competition authorities. He has served both as counsel to the notifying parties (private equity funds and corporate clients) and as counsel to the complainants.

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2398 Bulletin

Romain Ferla The French Court of Appeal of Colmar rejects a request to forbid Internet resellers to sell a supplier’s products considering that the legality of its exclusive distribution network is not established (Brandalley / Over Stock / Puma)

24 June 2008 2398

French courts are more and more solicited by suppliers claiming that online resellers or platforms violate their selective and/or exclusive distribution networks. We all remember the decisions recently rendered by the Paris commercial court in favour of LVMH against ebay . In a similar case, (...)

3210 Review

Romain Ferla Exemption from the suspensive effect of merger control: Should European and French decision-making practices be harmonized?

May 2022 2568

The standstill obligation in merger control procedures is not an absolute principle. Both the French Competition Authority and the European Commission recognise the possibility of exceptional derogations to this principle. In times of crisis, requests for such derogations are more frequent, (...)

Romain Ferla Merger control in the hospital sector: Focus on the international decision-making practice

February 2018 642

In light of the French Competition Authority’s recent conditional clearance decision in the hospital care sector, it is interesting to examine the merger control experiences of other countries in this distinctive and sensitive sector. This article proposes a comparative study of the American, (...)