Michel Petite

Michel Petite joined Clifford Chance at the beginning of 2008. Michel Petite specialises in European Commission policies, community law and competition law, working in close co-operation with practice groups such as antitrust, trade, banking, taxation and government relations and public policy ; International commercial law and litigation at the world Trade Organisation court. Michel has worked as legal adviser to three Commission Presidents : Jacques Delors, Romano Prodi, (as head of cabinet), and Jose Manuel Barroso. Throughout his time at the Commission he was heavily involved in competition (setting up the "merger" Regulation ; director of "State aids"), internal market matters and Taxation. He participated in all the institutional reforms (Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon).