David Sevy
Compass Lexecon (Paris)
Executive Vice President
David Sevy is an Executive Vice President at Compass Lexecon and heads up the Paris office. David has advised clients on a wide variety of competition and litigation issues, in over hundred and fifty cases covering very different sectors, including consumer goods, retailing, media, transportation, automotive, aeronautics, healthcare, telecommunications, energy, and financial services. David has advised clients in many complex mergers, including a number of Phase II proceedings before the European Commission and national competition authorities (France, Belgium, UK, Switzerland, Malta, Romania). Recent EC experience involves Phase II cases Fiat Chryler/Peugeot (2020), Siemens/Alstom (2018), Thales/Gemalto (2018), Wabtec/Faiveley (2016), and Liberty Global/Base (2016), as well as Phase I cases Orange/TKR (2021) and Safran/Zodiac (2017). Recent experience in front of the French NCA includes Phase II cases Ardian/SPMR (2021), Cofigeo/William Saurin (2018) and FNAC/Darty (2016). David has also advised clients in antitrust cases before the European Commission (including Art. 101 cases re: Natural gas, Power Cables, Euribor, CDS, SSA Bonds) and before national jurisdictions. David has also acted as economic and testifying expert in several commercial litigation (before French and German commercial courts in particular) and international arbitration cases (under ICC, ICSID and LCIA), as well as in WTO cases. David is featured in the Who’s Who of Competition Economists Thought leaders and in the Who’s Who of Commercial Arbitration. He is Non-Governmental Advisor for the French competition authority in the International Competition Network. David graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1986) and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Ecole Polytechnique (1993). After a post-doc at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1994), David worked for France Télécom (1994–1999) as senior regulatory economist. He then joined McKinsey & Company in Paris, from 1999–2002. David´s academic research focused mainly on theoretical and applied industrial economics. He is currently adjunct professor of economics at Ecole Polytechnique, teaching antitrust economics, after having taught business and organization economics. David is co-author of the textbook Economie de l’entreprise, aux Editions de l’Ecole Polytechnique and is frequently invited as speaker at competition policy conferences.
Linked authors
Luis Agosti
Compass Lexecon (Madrid)
Enrique Andreu
Compass Lexecon (Brussels)
Jonathan B. Baker
American University’s Washington College of Law (Washington)
Dennis Beling
Compass Lexecon (Singapore)
Dennis W. Carlton
Compass Lexecon (Chicago)
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When Information Is Not (Market) Power: Using Quantitative Techniques To Show That Information Exchange Did Not Facilitate Collusion* Abstract On January 2015, the French competition authority claimed that some car rental companies infringed competition law by sharing monthly information (...)
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Presentation Context of the claim 1. On 12 February 2008, the French Competition Council (hereafter the “Council”) has rejected Free’s claim for interim measures regarding the conditions of access to civil engineering facilities of France Télécom (hereafter “FT”), in the context of the development (...)
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Background Direct Energie (hereafter ‘DE’) is a new entrant in the French retail electricity market which supplies small professional customers. It purchases energy from EDF through a bilateral wholesale contract concluded in December 2005 (hereafter ‘EDF-DE contract’). DE has seized Conseil de la (...)
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The French Competition Authority (FCA) has fined € 300,000 NGK Spark Plugs France for a vertical agreement with its distributors involving an exclusive dealing provision. NGK Spark Plugs France is one of the main producers of spark plugs for motorcycles (two-stroke engines) in France. The FCA’s (...)
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It was questionable whether this important judgment would close the debate on the interpretation of Article 102 TFEU. Will it put an end to the controversial and even polemical topics related to the interpretation of Article 102 TFEU and in particular to the debate on the effects-based (...)
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Decisional practice concerning multilateral interchange fees applicable to various payment means is now well established, with competition authorities converging towards a strict regulation of the levels of these fees. However, from an economic perspective, there remain serious methodological (...)
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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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Interview conducted by David Sevy Compass Lexecon. You are the new Chief Economist of the Competition Authority as of 1 May 2013. Where and when did your interest in market regulation and competition policy in particular originate, and how does it fit in with your background? My doctoral (...)
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This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the Private enforcement organized by the Concurrences Review that has held on 5th July 2012 in Brussels. In the first contribution, Frederic Jenny, chairman of the OECD Competition Committee, describes the main economic and legal (...)
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This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the multiproducts competition organised by Concurrences Review that has held on the 15th March 2011 in Paris. In the first contribution, Anne Perrot, Vice President of the Competition Authority, exposes the specificities of (...)
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This set of papers is derived from the training session organised by Concurrences Review that has held on 14th December 2010 in Paris. For M. Choné, auhor of the first paper, the regulation of infrastructures involves difficult economic challenges. Upgrading infrastructures and building new (...)
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When determining a pecuniary sanction, the French Competition Authority will take into account several criteria including the « damage to the economy » caused by the illicit practice. Evaluating this damage involves several variables and the task remains inherently complex due to the lack of (...)
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This mini-symposium takes stock of practical advances in competition damage evaluation. Combining perspectives from competition authorities, academics and practitioners respectively, it shows the existence of common principles and a set of widely accepted methods to calculate damages that may (...)
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This set of three papers are derived from the training session on oligopolies with homogeneous products organised by Concurrences Review and held on 21st January 2010 in Paris. The first paper is a short introduction by Prof. Anne Perrot aimed at briefly introducing the relevant notions. The (...)
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Recent case law of the European Courts, the recent guidelines of the European Commission on non-horizontal mergers, the decisional practice of the European Commission as well as that of various national competition authorities and courts seem to focus on the possible anticompetitive foreclosure (...)
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Presentation Laurence Idot Professor, Universtité Paris II, European College Director of the Scientific Committee of Concurrences 1. It is in my capacity as head of the journalConcurrences’s scientific committee that I was asked to make this morning’s presentation. I confess that I failed in (...)
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In 2003 and 2004, the European Commission made a series of significant reforms both to Community competition law and DG Competition. The legislative reforms were accompanied by equally far-reaching internal reforms to the organisation and procedures within DG Competition. This set of three (...)
