François Brunet created Brunet Avocats end of 2021. Previously, François was a partner at Hogan Lovells after a 26-year career at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, based in the Paris office. Mr. Brunet’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law. Mr. Brunet has represented clients in a number of cartel/monopolization investigations and transactions in the television, cable, car equipment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cement, paper and other industries. Professor at the University Paris 5-René Descartes (2000-2009), he is widely published on various aspects of EU and French competition law and is distinguished as a leading competition/antitrust lawyer by Chambers Global The World’s Leading Lawyers and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. He co-authored “La pratique communautaire du contrôle des concentrations” (De Boeck, Brussels) with Antoine Winckler and Mario Siragusa. He also co-edited with Guy Canivet, former Chief Justice of the French Cour de Cassation, an EU Competition Law Handbook (“Le nouveau droit communautaire de la concurrence”). Mr. Brunet is the President of the Competition Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce (French Committee) and a member of the board of directors of the Association des Avocats pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence. Mr. Brunet graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in 1989 and from the Ecole HEC in 1990 (Master’s in International Finance), and received law degrees from the University of Paris II in 1992 (DEA). Mr. Brunet is a member of the Bar in Paris and is admitted to practice before the European Court of Justice and the European General Court.
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The European Commission has published a Temporary Framework Communication to provide guidance to companies that are cooperating to ensure the supply and distribution of essential products – including medicines and medical equipment – during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Communication sets out the (...)
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Cooperation in the life sciences industry and EU competition law in the context of COVID-19 The life sciences industry is facing unprecedented demands due to COVID-19. From front line carers to researchers and scientists, significant efforts are being put towards caring for those suffering (...)
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The French road signs cartel case has resulted in significant volume of litigation before French administrative courts, which led to the award of very high damages (in view of the size of the markets concerned and of the amount of the fines imposed by the French Competition Authority). Based on (...)
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Reviewing a well-established decision-making practice (See in particular the letters from the Minister of the Economy: C-2007-91 to the board of Vitalia Développement 2, concerning a merger in the sector of diagnostics and care in healthcare institutions; C-2007-80 of 24 July 2007 to the board (...)
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On 12 November 2019, the European Commission cleared the acquisition of the operator Bonnier Broadcasting by the Swedish telecommunications group Telia. Both operators are active in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway. While Telia provides fixed and mobile telecommunications services and (...)
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The audiovisual sector is highly dynamic and incumbent players increasingly face the competitive pressure exerted by subscription video on demand (SVOD) platforms such as Amazon Prime, Netflix or Disney+. One of the most pressing questions for competition authorities analyzing this sector is to (...)
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On 30 August 2019, the French Competition Authority (’FCA’) approved Cellnex’s acquisition of a 70% stake in Iliad 7, a subsidiary of Iliad (controlled by Mr. Xavier Niel). Iliad 7 owns all the mobile telecommunication hosting sites previously controlled by Free Mobile, a French mobile network (...)
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By a decision of 24 July 2019, the Competition Authority authorised the merger between the D’Aucy and Triskalia groups. D’Aucy and Triskalia are two cooperative groups based mainly in Brittany, which between them have 25 000 member farmers and a combined turnover in excess of €3 billion. The (...)
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After Altice, it is therefore Canon’s turn to be fined several million euros for having implemented an acquisition before it was notified and authorised by the European Commission. While the fine imposed on the Japanese company is disproportionate to that imposed on the cable operator (124.5 (...)
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On 21 April 2019, the decree simplifying the notification file to the Competition Authority entered into force. The adoption of this decree follows the preliminary conclusions made public by the Authority on 7 June 2018 on the modernisation and simplification of merger control. The decree of (...)
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By a decision of 17 April 2019, the Competition Authority authorised the change from sole to joint control over Luderix, which operates the Picwic toy store. Jellej Jouets thus acquired 49% of the target’s capital and voting rights, with the remaining 51% held by the Mulliez joint venture, which (...)
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On April 12, 2019, the European Commission has approved the acquisition by Nidec, a Japanese company active in the electric motors and motor products sector, of Embraco, a subsidiary of Whirlpool based in Brazil and specialised in the production of refrigeration compressors. Refrigeration (...)
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110 million fine imposed on Facebook for providing inaccurate information in connection with its acquisition of WhatsApp (Eur.Comm., August 30, 2017, Facebook/WhatsApp, M.8228, p. 8228).The European Commission, which has made the violation of procedural rules in merger control one of its new (...)
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On 27 September 2018, the European Commission approved the creation of a joint-venture between Boeing and Safran. The joint-venture will design, manufacture and sell auxiliary power units (’APUs’), supply the spare parts associated with the APUs, and provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (...)
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It took a year and a half to publish the European Commission’s decision to authorize, after a phase 2 review and without conditions, the merger between two major players in the optical industry, Italy’s Luxottica, a supplier of eyeglass frames and sunglasses, which owns the Ray-Ban, Oakley and (...)
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This set of three papers is derived from the conference organized by the Concurrences Journal and the Chambre de commerce internationale of Paris that was held on 17th October 2012 in Paris. In the first article, Emmanuel Combe and Constance Monnier discuss their works of 2007 on the level of (...)
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This first roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust”, Paris, 10 February 2012, was dedicated to the compliance programs and how efficient are they really. In the first paper, President Lasserre shares the experiment of the French Competition Authority in this area. Cecilio Madero (...)
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