Charlotte Breuvart
Jones Day (Brussels)
Partner
Charlotte Breuvart focuses her practice on European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law. She has over 20 years of experience in cartels, abuses of dominance, merger control, and State aids (both in counseling and litigation). In 2012, Charlotte contributed to obtaining the largest ever fine reduction granted by the European courts in an antitrust case. She is recognized as a leading practitioner in European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law by independent legal directories and is one of five women partners based in Brussels who were elected as "Shining Stars" in the Private Practice section of W@Competition’s Five Star Professionals Survey, Brussels Bubble (October 2021).
Distinctions
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Concerted Practices
Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Procedure
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards: Business, Procedure
Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers
Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards: Academic, Mergers
Linked authors
Michael E. Arruda
Jones Day (Hong Kong)
Artur L. Badra
Jones Day (Madrid)
Eric Barbier de la Serre
Jones Day (Paris)
Jason Beer
Jones Day (London)
Simon Bellas
Jones Day (Melbourne)
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2885 Bulletin
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The European Competition Network ("ECN") issued a policy statement indicating that member agencies will not intervene in legitimate, cooperative efforts to address disruptions caused by the conflict in Ukraine and related sanctions. The ECN is a working group of competition authorities in (...)
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I. The context The European Commission (“EC”) is currently revising the rules governing vertical agreements under EU competition law, which will expire on May 31, 2022. In this respect, on July 9, 2021, the EC published its long-awaited draft revised Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (“Draft (...)
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In Short The Development: The European Commission ("Commission") adopted new Guidelines on State Aid for Climate, Environmental Protection and Energy ("CEEAG") on 27 January 2022. The CEEAG revise criteria that the Commission will now apply to determine whether EU Member State financing to (...)
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In Short The Situation: The European Commission ("Commission") has adopted revised guidance setting out the criteria to assess Important Projects of Common European Interest ("IPCEI") under EU State aid rules ("Communication"). The Background: IPCEIs are cross-border projects that overcome (...)
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In Short The Background: The European Commission ("Commission") recently unveiled long-awaited draft revisions to its Vertical Block Exemption Regulation ("VBER") and Vertical Guidelines. The VBER includes safe harbors that exempt some agreements in the vertical supply chain from antitrust (...)
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In Short The Situation: According to the European Commission ("EC"), an increasing number of competitively significant transactions have evaded merger notification because one or both of the transacting parties (but typically a small, high value target) did not meet EC or any Member State (...)
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In Short The Situation: The European Commission has launched its largest ever stimulus package to support recovery of EU economies from the COVID-19 pandemic’s unprecedented economic and social disruption. Each EU Member State must submit a recovery plan and funding requests for Commission (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. In Short The Development: The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that parent companies and economic successors can be held liable for damages caused by a (...)
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In Short The Development: The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that the European Commission ("Commission") violated UPS’s rights of defense when it failed to provide UPS with the final economic model used in its decision to block UPS’s proposed acquisition of TNT in 2013. The Result: The (...)
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The European Court of Justice ("CoJ") has upheld the European Commission’s use of evidence transmitted by a national authority other than a Member State competition authority in a cartel investigation. The CoJ ruled on April 27, 2017, that the national authority properly transmitted such (...)
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In Short The Situation: The European Commission has launched a new tool that will allow individuals to anonymously report anticompetitive conduct for the first time. The Impact: The Commission’s new access to anonymous inside information could increase the risk of exposure for companies (...)
4404 Review
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According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, almost half of SMEs in the EU use online marketplaces to sell their products or services. At the same time, many merchants report to have experienced resale price restrictions when selling online. Since online RPM is a widespread concern in online (...)
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Against the background of a changing landscape of electricity markets, a number of EU Member States have devised capacity mechanisms in order to address perceived threats to their national security of supply. However, such mechanisms may raise competition concerns, which the European Commission (...)
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The phenomenon of "big data" has been catching the attention of competition practitioners over the past years, as it challenges (and helps modernize) several traditional tenets of competition law. In this context, the article seeks to provide insights on three speific issues, on the basis of (...)
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I. Introduction 1. Could clearance create more problems than a prohibition for the parties to a concentration? This is a real question for companies faced with considerable difficulties in implementing the merger remedies that conditioned a clearance. 2. Under the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”), (...)
