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Sophie-Anne Descoubès

French Competition Authority (Paris)

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Sophie-Anne Descoubès is a French qualified lawyer. She is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), holds a Law degree from the Université Panthéon Sorbonne and an LL.M in East Asian Commercial Laws from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She worked as a litigation lawyer with several law firms in Paris. She currently works as adviser for Institutionnal and European affairs at the French Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence).

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3025 Review

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès OECD: The OECD Competition committee and its Working group n° 2 and 3 meet in Paris (OCDE)

17 June 2017 221

The meeting of the OECD Competition Committee and its Working Parties from 17 to 21 June 2017 gave rise to a number of round tables, or discussions in another format, on ambitious and new topics, as well as discussions of a more directly operational nature for the competition experts of the (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès ICN: The International Competition Network holds its sixteenth Annual conference in Porto (ICN)

10 May 2017 169

After two editions in the Asia-Pacific region - in Sydney in 2015 and in Singapore in 2016 - the annual conference of the International Competition Network (ICN) was held this year, from 10 to 12 May, in Porto. The Portuguese competition authority chose to host this world-class event in a (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès ICN : The French Competition Authority hosts the 2016 International competition network’s Merger Roundtable

3 December 2016 194

77 participants from more than 35 different jurisdictions took part in the round table of the International Competition Network (ICN) Merger Working Group organised on 3 December 2016 in Paris by the Competition Authority, co-chair of the group. Isabelle de Silva, President of the Authority, (...)

Sophie-Anne Descoubès OECD : The OECD hosts the international competition community within the framework of the 15th Global Forum (Global forum, Paris)

1 December 2016 127

The end-of-year session of the OECD Competition Committee is unique in that it combines the meetings of members and observers of the Committee and its sub-groups with the Global Competition Forum, a large gathering of invited delegations from around the world. This time the Global Forum was (...)

Sophie-Anne Descoubès OECD Competition Committee: The OECD Competition Committee and its Working Parties n°2 and 3 convene in Paris

13 June 2016 133

The meeting of the OECD Competition Committee and its working groups from 13 to 17 June 2016 gave rise to several round tables of particular interest, either because they sought to explore a new theme such as breakthrough innovations in the legal professions, or because they allowed for a more (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès ICN : The International Competition Network organises the Merger Workshop in Brussels

24 September 2015 148

The workshop of the Merger Working Group ("MWG") of the International Competition Network ("ICN") - bringing together more than 200 participants from 40 countries - took place on 24 and 25 September 2015 in Brussels under the aegis of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès OECD : The OECD Competition Comittee discusses the relation between public and private enforcement as well as the institutional evolution of competition authorities

15 June 2015 478

The relationship between public and private action in competition law For the 123rd session of the OECD Competition Committee, the Co-operation and Enforcement Group, which met on 15 June and was chaired by Bill Baer, Head of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, chose the (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès ICN : The International Competition Network organises its 14th annual conference in Sydney

28 April 2015 306

The 14th annual conference of the International Competition Network (ICN), organised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (hereinafter "ACCC"), took place from 28 April to 1 May 2015 in Sydney. With the participation of 500 people, the conference once again demonstrated the (...)

Sophie-Anne Descoubès OECD : The OECD Competition Committee organises its 122th session including roundtables on the role of markers in leniency procedures and on the institutional evolution of competition authorities

11 February 2015 236

This session inaugurated the new calendar of meetings of the OECD Competition Committee, which will now meet twice a year. Several topics of interest were on the agenda, including two thematic roundtables, one organized by Working Party No. 3 on Co-operation and Enforcement, chaired by William (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès OECD: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development organizes the 120th session of the Competition Committee including roundtables on the financing of the roll-out of broadband networks and on generic pharmaceuticals

16 June 2014 112

The June session of the Competition Committee, which included two round tables on the financing of the roll-out of broadband networks and generic drugs, also saw the adoption of a revision of the 1995 OECD Recommendation on Co-operation between Member Countries on Anticompetitive Practices (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès ICN : The International Competition Network organizes its 13th Annual Conference and presents its Recommended practices

22 April 2014 209

"More than a meeting, it’s our future": the title of the 13th annual conference of the International Competition Network (ICN), which took place from 22 to 25 April 2014 in Marrakech under the aegis of the Moroccan Competition Council, reflected the national stakes underlying this international (...)

Sophie-Anne Descoubès, Marianne Faessel International Competition Network : The Advocacy Working Group of the International Competition Network holds its second Annual Workshop (ICN Advocacy Workshop, 12 and 13th December 2013, Rome)

13 December 2013 138

The International Competition Network’s (ICN) Advocacy Working Group held its first-ever workshop in Paris in October 2012, organised by the Competition Authority, which is co-chairing the group alongside the authorities of Mauritius and Portugal. What was a novelty last year has become a (...)

Sophie-Anne Descoubès Organization for economic cooperation and development : The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development debates competition in waste management and in the food chain industry (OECD Competition committee, 28-31th October 2013, Paris)

28 October 2013 286

Round table on "Competition in waste management". ---- On 28 October, the Competition Committee’s Subgroup on Competition and Regulation focused on the study of three sub-themes on the subject of competition in the waste management sector: competition at the household waste collection stage, (...)

Marianne Faessel, Sophie-Anne Descoubès International competition network: The International Competition Network shows during its 12th Annual conference that it is an ambitious organization that wants to make itself heard in the international arena (ICN Annual conference)

24 April 2013 268

International Competition Network, Annual Conference, 24-26 April 2013, Warsaw The French Competition Authority, which succeeded the Competition Council in March 2009, is a founding member of the International Competition Network (ICN), which was set up in 2001 and now brings together 127 (...)