Sylvain Petit is a counsel at Shearman and Sterling based in its Brussels office. Prior to working at Shearman, Petit was an associate within the Antitrust & Competition Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Brussels. He focuses on European, French and Belgian competition law, with the main areas of his practice encompassing merger control, anticompetitive practices (anticompetitive agreements and abuse of dominant position) and State aid issues.Sylvain graduated with a master in European law (Magna Cum Laude) from the Université Catholique de Louvain (2013). He also obtained a LL.M. in European law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2014).
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Overview The European Court of Justice (CJEU) brought back to life an old theory which allows acquisitions, which fall below EU and national merger control thresholds, to be challenged post-completion under abuse of dominant position rules (Article 102 TFEU). The judgment creates yet another (...)
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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) entered into force on 12 January 2023. It represents a massive expansion in the European Commission’s power to investigate inward investment to the EU. This new regulation—the first of its kind in the world—attempts to assert control over subsidies (...)
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On January 23, 2019, the European Court of Justice (hereinafter the “Court” or the “ECJ”) handed down a preliminary ruling on the notion of “existing aid”. The Court held, in particular, that the circumstance where a new aid that becomes existing aid by virtue of the 10 years limitation period (...)
