Charlotte Breuvart
Jones Day (Brussels)
Lawyer (Partner)
Charlotte Breuvart is a Partner at Jones Day in Brussels. She focuses her practice on European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law. She has almost 20 years of extensive experience in cartels, abuses of dominance, merger control, and state aids (both in counseling and litigation). In 2012, Charlotte contributed to obtaining the largest ever fine reduction granted by the European courts in an antitrust case. She is recognized as a leading practitioner in European, French, and Belgian antitrust and competition law by independent legal directories and has been named to the list of 40 in their 40s : Notable Women Competition Professionals in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Charlotte regularly advises French, Belgian, and international companies in a wide range of industries, with a specific focus on the energy sector, where she also delivers regulatory advice. She has been involved in several high-profile antitrust cases before the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union as well as in major M&A transactions involving multijurisdictional merger filings. She also has participated in several leniency applications and commitments procedures (at the EU and national levels) and implemented learning and compliance programs in antitrust and competition law. Prior to joining Jones Day, Charlotte was the resident partner-in-charge of the Brussels antitrust and competition practice of an international law firm (2007-2013). She also served as a senior antitrust in-house counsel at EDF and practiced in the Paris and Washington, D.C. offices of another international law firm for several years.
Distinctions
Nominee, 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards : Business, Concerted Practices
Nominee, 2019 Antitrust Writing Awards : Business, Procedure
Nominee, 2018 Antitrust Writing Awards : Business, Procedure
Nominee, 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards : Academic, Mergers
Nominee, 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards : Academic, Mergers
Auteurs associés
Chris Ahern
Jones Day (Sydney)
Jesús Gabriel Altamirano
Jones Day (Mexico)
Bernard Amory
Jones Day (Brussels)
S. Wade Angus
Jones Day (New York)
Renato Antonini
Jones Day (Brussels)
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In Short The Background : The European Commission ("Commission") recently unveiled long-awaited draft revisions to its Vertical Block Exemption Regulation ("VBER") and Vertical Guidelines. The VBER includes safe harbors that exempt some agreements in the vertical supply chain from antitrust (...)
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In Short The Situation : According to the European Commission ("EC"), an increasing number of competitively significant transactions have evaded merger notification because one or both of the transacting parties (but typically a small, high value target) did not meet EC or any Member State (...)
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In Short The Situation : The European Commission has launched its largest ever stimulus package to support recovery of EU economies from the COVID-19 pandemic’s unprecedented economic and social disruption. Each EU Member State must submit a recovery plan and funding requests for Commission (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. In Short The Development : The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that parent companies and economic successors can be held liable for damages caused by a (...)
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In Short The Development : The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that the European Commission ("Commission") violated UPS’s rights of defense when it failed to provide UPS with the final economic model used in its decision to block UPS’s proposed acquisition of TNT in 2013. The Result : (...)
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The European Court of Justice ("CoJ") has upheld the European Commission’s use of evidence transmitted by a national authority other than a Member State competition authority in a cartel investigation. The CoJ ruled on April 27, 2017, that the national authority properly transmitted such (...)
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In Short The Situation : The European Commission has launched a new tool that will allow individuals to anonymously report anticompetitive conduct for the first time. The Impact : The Commission’s new access to anonymous inside information could increase the risk of exposure for companies (...)
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Selon une enquête Eurobaromètre récente, près de la moitié des PME de l’UE utilisent les plateformes de commerce électronique pour vendre leurs produits ou leurs services. Dans le même temps, de nombreuses entreprises rapportent avoir été confrontées à des restrictions de prix de revente lorsqu’elles (...)
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Dans un contexte de profonds changements des marchés européens de l’électricité, un certain nombre d’États membres de l’UE ont mis en place des mécanismes de capacité pour répondre aux menaces qu’ils perçoivent comme pesant sur leur sécurité d’approvisionnement. De tels mécanismes peuvent toutefois soulever (...)
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Le phénomène du "big data" fait actuellement l’objet d’une attention croissante, tant il questionne (et contribue à moderniser) certains aspects traditionnels du droit de la concurrence. Dans ce contexte, l’article vise à apporter des éléments d’analyse sur trois questions spécifiques, à la lumière de la (...)
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I. Introduction 1. Could clearance create more problems than a prohibition for the parties to a concentration ? This is a real question for companies faced with considerable difficulties in implementing the merger remedies that conditioned a clearance. 2. Under the EU Merger Regulation (...)
