Afrer over 10 years of practicing competition law in Anglo-American firms, Romain Maulin created a boutique firm specializing in economic law (Maulin Avocats). He focuses his practice on European and French competition law and advises national and international clients on a wide array of issues pertaining to competition and distribution laws, with an emphasis on cartel and abuse of dominance investigations as well as merger control proceedings before the French Competition Authority and the European Commission. He regularly represents clients in leniency and settlement proceedings and assists in the set-up of compliance programs. His firm is ranked by Décideurs as being “Highly regarded practice” for competition law and “Strong reputation” for distribution law and unfair commercial practices. Romain Maulin is widely published and is a frequent lecturer at the University of Paris-Saclay and the Paris bar shcool on issues pertaining to competition and contract law. He is a member of Association Française de l’Etude de la Concurrence (AFEC) and of Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence (APDC).
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EU Court Orders New Assessment of Intel’s Rebates The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has quashed a ruling by the EU’s General Court which had upheld the European Commission’s (EC) 2009 finding of abuse of dominance by Intel Corporation Inc. Intel was fined €1.06 billion, a record at (...)
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In a decision issued on 18 December 2009, the French Competition Authority (the «Authority«) fined a trade association in the hydrotherapy sector, the Conseil national des exploitants thermaux («CNETh«), for infringing article L. 420-1 of the French Commercial Code (the French equivalent of art. (...)
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Background This case arose out of the clearance granted by the French Minister of the Economy ("Minister") for the acquisition by Deloitte of Janny Marque Futur ("JMF"), the holding company of BDO Marque et Gendrot ("BDO"). Through this transaction, Deloitte, one of the "Big Four", acquired (...)
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In a ruling of 9 June 2009 , the Paris Court of Appeal (the “Court of Appeal”) dismissed an appeal brought by the company Vedettes Inter-iles vendéennes (“VIIV”) against the French Competition Council (the “Council”) decision dated 23 December 2004. The period of 5 years between the decision and the (...)
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In a decision of 7 October 2008, the French Competition Council (the "Council") accepted commitments submitted by France Telecom regarding an alleged abuse of its dominant position in the sector of engineering, consultancy and certification of private telecommunications facilities pursuant to (...)
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In a decision of 9 March 2006, the French Competition Council (the "Council") fined nearly 80 companies and trade associations for unlawful practices implemented between 1993 and 1998 in the sector of heating, sanitation, plumbing and air-conditioning products. These practices included (i) (...)
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While the introduction of a more economical approach of the restriction of competition and of the modernization of competition law were intended to bring significant changes in competition law enforcement, it is now both necessary and possible to assess to what extent the effect-based approach (...)
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In order to deal with the increasing difficulties of gathering evidence, the European Commission has started to rely more and more on oral evidence to substantiate its cases, in particular with regard to the existence of cartels. This trend, combined with the current deficiencies of the (...)
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Ten years after the introduction of the settlement procedure and pending new procedural notices from the French Competition Authority, we have analysed past decisions of the Authority and the case law of the review courts with a view to assessing the implementation and consequences of this (...)
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