Quentin Colombier, Ph. D Candidate, is a member of the Competition and European Law team of Bredin Prat law firm. He takes an active part in handling the team’s cases, with a focus on Civil law (tort & contract) and Distribution law. Quentin graduated from Nancy University (Master 2 Droit de l’entreprise et des affaires – Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d’Entreprise / DJCE) and from Montpellier University (Certificat d’études spécialisées, Droit économique). With a particular interest in the relationship between Competition law and Artificial Intelligence, Quentin is currently writing a Ph. D thesis on the algorithmic collusion topic, in parallel with his activity at Bredin Prat law firm.
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It was at this still preliminary stage of the proceedings that Free and Iliad, which are active in the audiovisual services distribution and advertising markets as advertisers, filed an application with the Conseil d’Etat seeking to have the Authority’s decision to open such a "pre-notification" (...)
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For the record, VIG ’s acquisition ofAEGON ’s Hungarian subsidiaries is part of a larger transaction whereby VIG intends to acquireAEGON’ s life and non-life insurance, pension fund, asset management and ancillary services businesses in Hungary, Poland, Romania and Turkey. On August 12, 2021, the (...)
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For the record, by a decision of August 12, 2021, the French Competition Authority [hereinafter the "Authority"] had authorized the acquisition of 95 Maxi Toys stores by Fijace ( King Jouet group), subject to the sale of three points of sale (Aut. conc., dec. n° 21-DCC-144 of August 12, 2021 (...)
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Organic products sector - Waiver of the suspensive effect - Commitments: The French Competition Authority recognizes for the first time the existence of a market for organic products, and authorizes the acquisition of 100 stores specialized in the retail distribution of organic products by a (...)
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On 10 August 2021, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations [the "CDC"] and Nexity ["Nexity"] notified the French Competition Authority [the "Authority"] of their plan to acquire joint control of Miniburo ["Miniburo"], which is active in the real estate sector and aims to provide coworking spaces. In (...)
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In its recent judgment in the case of the takeover ofItas by TDF, the Paris Court of Appeal referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union [the "Court ofJustice"] the question of the durability of its Continental Can case law (Court of Justice of the European Communities, 21 February (...)
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In this case, the Ardian group ["Ardian"], active in the transport, telecoms and renewable energy sectors, notified the French Competition Authority [the "Authority"] of its plan to acquire Société du Pipeline Méditerranée-Rhône ["SPMR"], which is active in the oil pipeline transport sector. (...)
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In line with the statement of the Commission’s Executive Vice-President Magrethe Vestager on the occasion of the 24th Competition Conference of theInternational Bar Association held on 11 September 2020 (as a reminder, see D. Tayar and E. Xueref-Poviac, "La Commission européenne se déclare (...)
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For the record, in its decision No. 19-DCC-141 of July 24, 2019 concerning the acquisition of exclusive control of Mondadori France by Reworld Media, the French Competition Authority ["the Authority"] authorized the acquisition of Mondadori France by Reworld Media subject to conditions. In the (...)
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This case has the particular interest of illustrating concretely an aspect of merger litigation little explored by the case law, relating to the interpretation of behavioural commitments. Without going into the details of the argument, we will simply outline the essential elements. On 18 June (...)
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