


Nicolas Charbit
Nicolas Charbit, Ph.D., LL.M., D.J.C.E, is Concurrences CEO and founder. Nicolas was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1994. He had been practicing competition law from 1994 to 2005 with a strong emphasis on cartels and network industries. He has completed a Ph.D. thesis at University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne on antitrust law and the public sector. Nicolas wrote for European and international legal journals and taught at universities and business schools. He has published various books and articles on European and French competition laws. Nicolas founded Concurrences in 2004.
Distinctions
Paris Chancellerie PhD Award (2000)
Linked authors
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Interview conducted by Nicolas Charbit, Editor, Concurrences and Séverine Schrameck, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton General In October 2021, you left the Competition Authority after a five-year term. In a speech to the competition community, you took stock of your work and said (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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Interview conducted by: Nicolas Charbit, Editor, Concurrences, Paris Vincent Jaunet, Partner, Magenta, Paris Sylvain Justier, Partner, Magenta, Paris The video interview can be consulted at the end of this page. Nicolas Charbit: Sébastien Soriano, hello! You publish A Future of Public (...)
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The present case takes place in the Netherlands. By a decision of 3 August 2016 (Case M. 7978), the Commission had authorised, subject to commitments at the end of a phase I, the proposed creation of a full-function joint venture in the Netherlands between the Vodafone group, active in the (...)
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The questions for this interview were assembled by the Editorial Committee of Concurrences Review : Nicolas Charbit, Chief editor of Concurrences, Alain Ronzano, Editor of « L’actu-concurrence » and Christophe Lemaire, Partner Ashurst – Associate Professor, Sorbonne Law School (University Paris I). (...)
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This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)
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This second edition of the Digest is enriched with a selection of more than 50 essays on European competition cases from the 27 European Union Member States, EU law, and US law. Each essay consists of a synthesis of the leading cases from 1990 onwards. These essays are organized in two parts. (...)
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Interview conducted by Emmanuel Combe, French Competition Authority and Nicolas Charbit, Editor in chief Concurrences. Several times, you’ve stated that competition can form part of a progressive vision of society, placing economic freedom and equal opportunities at the centre of debates. Can (...)
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In September 2004, Concurrenceswas a project. Ten years later, in September 2014, Concurrencesis still a project, but a project in constant evolution. On the occasion of the 10 years, the founders’ wish was not so much to celebrate an anniversary, an overly narcissistic exercise, but to look at (...)
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Interview conducted by Nicolas Charbit, Editor in chief, Concurrences. 1. In June, you will be defending a long-awaited consumer bill before the National Assembly. What is the general philosophy of this text? The main objective of this text is to make consumer law more effective. It focuses (...)
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Order the e-Book version of this book on concurrences.com ($ 185.00) - Buy the print version of this book on Amazon ($ 215.00) This Antitrust Tribute is a selection of 31 essays providing an insightful and original look at the antitrust law to which Prof. William E. Kovacic has contributed so (...)
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1. Makis, you have been a Commissioner and Member of the Board of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) for a year and a half, having left Brussels and an international law firm. Do you miss the life of a practitioner in Brussels? 2. Can you describe your work at the HCC? 3. Greece has (...)
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At the beginning of 2007, the magazine Concurrences published the cross interviews of the two main candidates in the French presidential election. Ms. Ségolène Royal and Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to contribute to the debate by answering a series of questions on national and Community competition (...)
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Interview conducted by Nicolas Charbit, Editor in chief, Concurrences, Paris, New York. Could you first briefly describe your personal background? I have been a judge for a little over thirty years. I started out as a magistrate at the age of 28 after a legal education at the Universities of (...)
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What place do you think competition policy should occupy if the French economy is to be fully competitive? What place do you consider competition policy should occupy in the implementation of the policies you propose to put in place if you are elected President of the Republic? The European (...)
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Interview conducted by Nicolas Charbit, Editor in chief, Concurrences, Paris, New York. Could you let us know about your personal background? Taking into account your antitrust background, would you consider that the same analysis should be conducted in the State aid field? What about the (...)
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The «automatic’’ anticompetitive agreement is the counterpart of the notion of automatic abuse brought out by the Court of Justice and EC Commission. This notion deals with the control of the normative activity of the State with regard to competition law based on the useful effect of Community (...)
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QUESTIONS Dominique Voillemot, could you briefly retrace your journey? What are the circumstances that led you to specialise very early on in Community law and then in competition cases? Could you describe the problems or issues at stake in the first competition law cases in the 60s and 70s in (...)
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"...The purpose of this study, which has so far remained unique in its kind, is to analyse the relationship between social law and competition law, emphasising the need for consistency in the legal system. The subject has been highly topical in recent years. First of all in case law, since it (...)
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Could you describe the main framework of the Turkish Competition Law? What would you say are the main differences between the Turkish and the EU competition provisions, both from a substantial point of view and from a procedural point of view; and what would be the main changes to Turkish (...)
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Interview of Sir Christopher BELLAMY, President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, London, United Kingdom Questions 1. You have been the President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal since 2003. This is a recent jurisdiction in the British jurisdictional order: what was the need for creating (...)
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You have been President of the Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) since 2000. This seems a relatively long time for a national competition authority and implies that the Bundeskartellamt is completely independent of other authorities. Has this been the case since the introduction of (...)
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You were appointed on September 1, 2004 as an advisor to the Supreme Court of Appeal in extraordinary service. Can you tell us the nature of the duties entrusted to you in this high court? Why was the Court of Cassation interested in your profile and why did you, yourself, want to join the (...)
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Concurrences is a workshop, a projects center dedicated to competition laws. In Europe competition law is not only part of Community law, but part of the 25 EU Member States national body of laws as well. It also reaches beyond European Economic Area. It is therefore no coincidence if a few (...)
Books

This 5th edition of the Competition Law Digest provides readers with a synthesis of leading antitrust cases from 1990 to 2021, from the EU & Member States, the US, and other relevant (...)

Pioneer, avant-garde, transformationalist - Eleanor M. Fox is regularly described in these terms by the manifold antitrust practitioners who have been influenced by her industry-shaping scholarly (...)

Dubbed “the dean of American antitrust law” by the New York Times, Herbert Hovenkamp is almost universally recognized as the most cited and the most authoritative US antitrust scholar. Contemporary (...)

Dr. Frédéric Jenny is the Renaissance man of competition policy. As an economist, scholar, judge and enforcer, he has helped transform the landscape of global competition enforcement. This second (...)

In this second volume of the Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum, the reader will find a series of essays no less brilliant than those in the first. Emphasis is, rightly, placed on Judge (...)

At a time of reckoning for the future of antitrust, this Liber Amicorum brings together a diverse collection of today’s leading thinkers to pay tribute to Albert Allen (Bert) Foer, founder of the (...)

This Liber Amicorum highlights the global reach of Professor Whish’s influence. Enforcers, academics and practitioners from around the world pay tribute to the mastery of competition law that (...)

The Digest comprises 41 essays and is structured in two parts: Part I deals with competition rules in general (procedural rules, unilateral practices, mergers...), whereas Part II is dedicated to (...)

Dr. Frédéric Jenny is the Renaissance man of competition policy. As an economist, scholar, judge and enforcer, he has helped transform the landscape of global competition enforcement. In the first (...)

This first volume of Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum gathers original essays that pay tribute to the exceptional career of Judge Ginsburg. Known in the legal community as a “giant in antitrust (...)

This 3rd edition of the Competition Law Digest provides a synthesis of EU and national leading antitrust cases from 1990 to 2016. The book is structured in two parts: Part I deals with (...)

In this book, ten prominent authors offer eleven contributions that provide their varying perspectives on the subject of consumer choice in the EU, Member States, and in the US. Various aspects (...)

Antitrust in Emerging and Developing Countries: Featuring Africa, Brazil, China, India, Mexico - Conference Papers 2nd Edition On October 23, 2015, Concurrences Journal in partnership with New (...)

Concurrences Review in partnership with the Global Antitrust Institute of the Law & Economics Center held the Global Antitrust Economics Conference at George Mason University School of Law on (...)

This second edition of the Digest is enriched with a selection of more than 50 essays on European competition cases from the 27 European Union Member States, EU law, and US law. Each essay (...)

On October 24, 2014, Concurrences Journal in partnership with New York University School of Law presented the inaugural conference, “Antitrust in Emerging and Developing Countries.” The conference (...)

Prologue « A quoi sert la concurrence ? » Telle est la question posée à 100 auteurs, question que se pose peut être encore, 10 ans après avoir lancé leur belle revue « Concurrences », l’équipe (...)

See the "avant-propos" of Laurence Idot, Frédéric Jenny et Nicolas Charbit the Foreword of Martine Béhar-Touchais The full list of contributors and the Table of Contents 100 contributions for the (...)

In the wake of William E. Kovacic Liber Amicorum -An Antitrust Tribute - Volume I, this Volume II provides, in the European tradition of Liber Amicorum, 27 contributions from 37 prominent authors (...)

This volume collects selected contributions around the works of Professor David Gerber, a pioneer of global antitrust. Readers will be offered the opportunity to explore the various views on the (...)

The United States does not seem to have developed the tradition of liber amicorum in the legal profession. This book is, therefore, an extremely successful, not to say "masterstroke". The (...)

The purpose of this book is to compare and contrast EU competition case law with European Members States competition case law, and Members States competition case law with each other. To the best (...)