

Valérie Meunier
Valérie Meunier is a Vice President with Compass Lexecon in the Paris office. Since joining Compass Lexecon in 2012, she has been involved in antitrust and merger cases in a wide range of industries including agri-food, advertising, building materials, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications. She has advised on competition enforcement cases investigating rebates, patent settlements, predation, vertical restraints and cartels. Prior to joining Compass Lexecon, Valérie worked at the Conseil de la concurrence and the Autorité de la concurrence, first as an Economist, and from November 2010, as Deputy Chief Economist. Within the economic service and backing the Investigation Services, she was working on competition, merger and consultative cases, bringing her expertise in a wide range of issues and economic sectors. She has also taken part in several competition policy debates, including the review of the competition rules applicable to vertical agreements. Valérie received a Ph.D. in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics (France), and after a post-doc at CIRANO, she joined Aarhus University (Denmark) where she was an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Management, and where she taught and conducted research in Industrial Organisation. She has co-authored several articles published in academic journals including The RAND Journal of Economics.
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Valérie Meunier and Jorge Padilla give their view on the way reverse payment patent settlements (RPPSs) should be assessed by competition authorities. From an economic viewpoint, the authors raise pro-competitive effects RPPS may have on consumer welfare and consider that a per se prohibition is (...)
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This set of two papers is derived from the training session on the exchange of information organized by the Concurrences Review that has held on April 3, 2013 in Paris. In the first contribution, Sabine Naugès and Severine Rissier, lawyers at Mc Dermott Will & Emery, compare and contrast the (...)
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This article presents two mergers of vertically integrated firms that have been investigated in depth by the Conseil the la concurrence. These two operations created risks of input and customer foreclosure on several markets under scrutiny. The Conseil contributed to the design of remedies to (...)
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This two-volume Liber amicorum is a collection of tributes to Ian Forrester’s outstanding career and articles signed by prominent academics and practitioners around the world on the most current (...)