Jérémie Jourdan’s main areas of practice include EU and French competition law, and general EU law. He has represented several clients in cartel investigations before the European Commission and on appeal before the EU Courts. Most recently, he represented a manufacturer in the Bathroom Fittings and Fixtures investigation (case COMP/39092), and Toshiba Corporation in the power transformers case (COMP/39129), the TV and computer monitor tubes case (COMP/39437), and in on-going proceedings before the General Court (T-104/13). Mr Jourdan regularly advises pharmaceutical companies on competition law matters. For example, he represented a pharmaceutical group during the Commission sector enquiry in the pharmaceutical sector in 2008-2009. He worked for Czech company Zentiva in its acquisition by Sanofi in 2009 (COMP/M.5253). Mr Jourdan is currently advising French pharmaceutical company Servier in the Commission’s on-going investigation in the perindopril case (concerning patent settlement agreements). Mr Jourdan has also represented clients before the European Commission in Phase 1 and Phase 2 merger control reviews, including the acquisition by Metso Corporation of pulp machinery equipment competitor Aker Kvaerner (COMP/M.4187), and the acquisition of Italian company Eco by the Finnish group Luvata (COMP/M.4750). He has also advised clients in proceedings before the French competition authority, most notably the acquisition of Laho Equipement by Loxam SA in the sector of rental of access equipment, and Belgian private equity firm Cobepa in its acquisition of Socotec (Decision 13-DCC-01). Jérémie Jourdan first worked at White & Case between 2005 and 2010. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as an adviser to the Competition Hearing Officers of the European Commission.
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On 6 September 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU" or "Court") essentially held in Intel that the European Commission ("Commission") cannot consider rebates, and in particular loyalty rebates, as per se illegal. Rather, the Commission needs to show that a specific rebates (...)
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The previous foreword for this publication was written in April 2011 by Ian S. Forrester, a long-time advocate of due process, and now a judge at the General Court of the EU. A few months later, the European Court of Human Rights adopted its landmark judgment in Menarini, ruling that, in light (...)
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Introduction On 10 March 2016, the European Court of Justice issued a landmark ruling annulling European Commission decisions requesting information from cement manufacturers, on the ground that the decisions did not sufficiently explain why the information requested was necessary . This (...)
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Abstract: The Galp case provides helpful clarifications on the judicial review of competition law decisions: • The review of legality implies the review of all the elements of a Commission decision, including new evidence submitted for the first time by the applicant in the course of the Court (...)
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DG Competition of the European Commission just published its 5th patent monitoring report. It covers patent settlements entered into in 2013. Each year, the Commission claims that the report shows a “steady increase” of patent settlements in general, which supposedly would prove that the (...)
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Introduction On 11 September 2014, the Court of Justice (ECJ) rendered its judgment in the Cartes Bancaires case . The ECJ quashed the General Court (GC) judgment for failing to correctly apply the notion of restriction by object. The Cartes Bancaires contains two key messages: first, the (...)
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In merger control, gun-jumping refers to two distinct types of prohibited practices: failure to notify authorities of a transaction triggering merger thresholds, and implementing a notified transaction before receiving merger clearance from the relevant merger authority. Both behaviours can (...)
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Executive Summary On 9 December 2013, DG Comp published its fourth report on the monitoring in Europe of patent settlements. Like its predecessors, the report welcomes the continuously low level of settlements that may give rise to antitrust concerns and trumpets that the overall number of (...)
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