Gildas de Muizon
Deloitte (Paris)
Partner, Head of Economic Advisory
Dr Gildas de Muizon is a partner and head of the Economic Advisory practice at Deloitte France. For 10 years, he was the managing partner of Microeconomix, a French economic consultancy acquired by Deloitte France in 2016. He has extensive experience advising clients on complex economic and data issues. He is an expert in competition, IP and regulatory economics and manages a strong team of econometricians and data scientists to help his clients and their lawyers in a variety of litigation cases. In the antitrust area, Dr de Muizon has advised on a variety of competition law issues and provides sound economic expertise applied to antitrust and competition law proceedings before the European Commission and national competition authorities (mergers and acquisitions, abuse of dominance, cartels, compliance audits). He has provided several written and oral testimonies in competition policy cases. Dr de Muizon has also served as an expert in commercial and contractual litigations before French courts and international arbitrations. He is a respected specialist in damage assessment. He acted a party-appointed expert in many major follow-on claims before French courts. In 2015, he was appointed as economic expert for the Paris Court of Appeal (“expert judiciaire”) and can serve as tribunal-appointed expert. Dr de Muizon graduated in executive science and management from Mines ParisTech (2001) and received his PhD in economics from University of Paris X and Mines ParisTech (2006).
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Ariane Charpin
Deloitte (Paris)
Nathalie Daley
Deloitte (Paris)
François Lévêque
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris
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The operation notified to the French Competition Authority (FCA) consists in the acquisition of the firm Quick by the firm Burger King France. Burger King and Quick are two fast-food restaurant chains selling hamburgers. The purpose of the operation is to turn 300 Quick restaurants located in (...)
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Innovation today is shifting the established positions of a growing number of companies and industries. There is no shortage of qualifiers to underline the power of this phenomenon: drastic innovation, destabilising innovation, disruptive innovation, radical innovation, disruptive innovation. (...)
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The De minimis communication of the European Commission defines under which conditions agreements between firms will not be considered to restrict competition in a sensitive way. The three contributions in this article discuss its effectiveness in promoting legal security for firms, especially (...)
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Different tests have been proposed by the economic literature and used by competition authorities in order to detect anticompetitive conducts. No single test is suitable for every type of practice and the economic theory can help in choosing the most relevant one. I. A middle way between the (...)
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The question of remedies, their design, their effectiveness, their implementation and their monitoring is a challenging issue for both the competition authorities and merging companies. The articles in this issue transcribe some interventions made at the recent conference organized by (...)
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The 1997 Notice on market definition is one of the oldest guidance notices adopted by the Commission in the area of competition law. Although its main principles appear still valid and uncontroversial, there is arguably scope for further guidance in controversial areas such as the (...)
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This set of three papers is derived from the training session organized by the Concurrences Review that was held on 29th March 2012 in Paris. For Gildas de Muizon, Economist and author of the second contribution, the market power of supermarkets must be assessed locally. For this it is (...)
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The Airtours criteria do not allow establishing ex post the existence of a collective dominant position as they are used to identify market situations where there is a risk that a collective dominant position emerges in the future. In an ex post intervention, it is necessary to demonstrate that (...)
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Competition authorities are generally concerned about the decreasing number of bidders resulting from a merger in a bidding market. Economic theory shows, however, that a decrease in the number of candidates may result in a more competitive outcome of the tendering process. The paper discusses (...)
