Quentin Colombier

On 10 August 2021, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations [the "CDC"] and Nexity ["Nexity"] notified the French Competition Authority [the "Authority"] of their plan to acquire joint control of Miniburo ["Miniburo"], which is active in the real estate sector and aims to provide coworking spaces. In (...)

In its recent judgment in the case of the takeover ofItas by TDF, the Paris Court of Appeal referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union [the "Court ofJustice"] the question of the durability of its Continental Can case law (Court of Justice of the European Communities, 21 February (...)

In this case, the Ardian group ["Ardian"], active in the transport, telecoms and renewable energy sectors, notified the French Competition Authority [the "Authority"] of its plan to acquire Société du Pipeline Méditerranée-Rhône ["SPMR"], which is active in the oil pipeline transport sector. (...)

In line with the statement of the Commission’s Executive Vice-President Magrethe Vestager on the occasion of the 24th Competition Conference of theInternational Bar Association held on 11 September 2020 (as a reminder, see D. Tayar and E. Xueref-Poviac, "La Commission européenne se déclare (...)

For the record, in its decision No. 19-DCC-141 of July 24, 2019 concerning the acquisition of exclusive control of Mondadori France by Reworld Media, the French Competition Authority ["the Authority"] authorized the acquisition of Mondadori France by Reworld Media subject to conditions. In the (...)

This case has the particular interest of illustrating concretely an aspect of merger litigation little explored by the case law, relating to the interpretation of behavioural commitments. Without going into the details of the argument, we will simply outline the essential elements. On 18 June (...)