Lionel Lesur

Franklin (Paris)

Lawyer (Partner)

Lionel Lesur is a member of Franklin’s Corporate-M&A / Private Equity and Competition teams. Lawyer at the Paris and Rome Bars, he also manages Franklin’s Italian Desk. Lionel advises French and international companies in a wide variety of industries, including Healthcare and Luxury Goods, as well as investment funds and top managers. His experience includes the negotiation of business combinations in all forms (mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, etc.) and complex commercial contracts, as well as assistance to foreign operators wishing to set up and develop strategically in France. Lionel also has significant experience in competition law, particularly in relation to multiple merger notifications and cartel proceedings and abuses of dominant position, both at the French and European levels. Finally, Lionel also advises on private enforcement, distribution law and competition compliance. He regularly teaches at the Universities of Aix-Marseille and Paris II Panthéon-Assas as well as at HEC and ESCP, both in mergers and acquisitions and in competition law.

Contacter

7539 | Conférences

14 mai 2019 Paris Amendes concurrence : Is the sky the limit ? Voir la documentation

5 juin 2018 Paris Contrôle des concentrations & fonds d’investissement : Faut-il un régime distinct ? Voir la documentation

21 juin 2016 Paris Mise en œuvre des règles de concurrence dans le e-commerce transfrontalier - Le point sur l’enquête de la Commission Voir la documentation

8 juin 2015 Paris Private enforcement : évaluation du dommage concurrentiel Voir la documentation

28 janv. 2015 Paris Sanctions des pratiques anticoncurrentielles : pour quoi faire ? Voir la documentation

27 mai 2014 Paris Pratiques d’éviction : Quoi de neuf ? Voir la documentation

22 janv. 2014 Paris Droit de la distribution en Europe : Développements récents et problématiques actuelles Voir la documentation

3 avr. 2013 Paris Existe-t-il des échanges d’informations pro-concurrentiels ? Voir la documentation

9 janv. 2013 Paris Amendes : Un an de mise en œuvre du Communiqué sanctions Voir la documentation

Articles

6426 Bulletin

Lionel Lesur, Jacques Buhart The French Competition Authority fines €25 million on a pharmaceutical laboratory for delaying entry into the market of the generic version of a drug and for hindering its development through disparagement campaigns (Janssen-Cilag)

20 décembre 2017 89

THE FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY FINES A PHARMACEUTICAL LABORATORY EUR 25 MILLION FOR ANTI-GENERIC PRACTICES* On 20 December 2017, the French Competition Authority (the FCA) imposed a EUR 25 million fine on a pharmaceutical laboratory, for delaying entry onto the market of the generic version (...)

Lionel Lesur, Jacques Buhart The French Competition Authority imposes a €302 m fine on three leading companies in the PVC and Linoleum floor coverings sector for price-fixing, sharing commercially sensitive information and signing a non-compete agreement on environmental performance advertising (Forbo / Gerflor / Tarkett / SFEC)

18 octobre 2017 63

SIGNIFICANT FINE IMPOSED BY THE FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY IN FLOOR COVERINGS CARTEL* On October 18, 2017, the French Competition Authority (the “FCA”) imposed a EUR 302 million fine on the three leading companies in the PVC and linoleum floor coverings sector ; Forbo, Gerflor and Tarkett, as (...)

Aymeric Discours, Lionel Lesur, Louise Aberg The French administration implements the EU Directive 2014/104 on antitrust damages actions (Decree n° 2017-305)

10 mars 2017 295

On 10 March 2017, France finally implemented into French law the EU Directive 2014/104 of 26 November 2014 on antitrust damages actions (see our Special Report) through Order n° 2017-303 and its implementing Decree n° 2017-305 of 9 March 2017. France was more than two months late, but there are (...)

Louise Aberg, Lionel Lesur The French Competition Authority sanctions companies for implementing a transaction which has been notified to the FCA but has not yet received a clearance decision in the telecommunications industry (Alice & SFR / OTL)

8 novembre 2016 58

FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY IMPOSES ITS FIRST EVER FINE FOR GUN-JUMPING* For the first time ever, on 8 November 2016 the French Competition Authority (FCA) sanctioned companies for implementing a transaction that had been notified to the FCA but not yet received a clearance decision, (...)

Lionel Lesur The EU Commission corrects second time around a merger decision in the publishing sector after a defect was raised by the EU Court of Justice (Editions Odile Jacob)

28 janvier 2016 229

As a general proposition, when the validity of a European Commission antitrust decision is challenged before the General Court of the European Union (GCEU), the procedure is one of judicial review, not a retrial on the merits (although the GCEU does have special jurisdiction to increase or (...)

Lionel Lesur, Veronica Pinotti, Wilko Van Weert The EU Parliament and the EU Council formally adopt the Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions

26 novembre 2014 345

The EU Directive on Antitrust Damages Actions was formally adopted by the European Parliament and the EU Council on 26 November 2014 and was published in the Official Journal on 5 December 2014. The 28 EU Member States are required to adapt their national laws and procedures in line with the (...)

Andrea L. Hamilton, Jacques Buhart, Lionel Lesur The EU Commission publishes a White Paper on the application of merger control rules to the acquisition of non-controlling minority shareholdings to provide a more effective merger control regime

9 juillet 2014 49

COMMISSION PUBLISHES WHITE PAPER ON MINORITY SHAREHOLDINGS* On 9 July 2014, the EU Commission (Commission) published a White Paper (White Paper) entitled Towards more effective EU merger control. The White Paper sets out the Commission’s current thinking on the application of merger control (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Aberg, Philipp Werner The French Civil Supreme Court rules on automotive quantitative selective distribution agreements (Auto 24/ Jaguar Land Rover)

15 janvier 2013 504

The Cour de cassation, France’s highest court for judicial matters, rendered a judgment on 15 January 2013 in a case involving Jaguar’s distribution agreements in France. The judgment follows an earlier ruling on the matter by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), from which the Cour (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Aberg, Philipp Werner The EU Court of Justice rules that the Commission can bring follow-on actions for damages on behalf of the EU in cartel cases (Otis)

6 novembre 2012 278

EU Commission Can Bring Follow-On Actions for Damages on Behalf of the European Union in Cartel Cases* On 6 November 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the European Commission was entitled to represent the European Union in an action for damages before national (...)

Louise Aberg, Lionel Lesur The French Competition Authority publishes its final version of the framework document on compliance programs and of its notice relating to settlements

10 février 2012 41

FCA’S NEW POLICY PROVIDES STRONG INCENTIVES FOR COMPLIANCE PROGRAM ADOPTION Following up on our prior post, on February 10, 2012, the French Competition Authority (FCA) published the final version of its framework document on compliance programs and of its Notice relating to settlements. (...)

Lionel Lesur The EU Commission explains in its judgement that the ’priority principle’ requires them to review a deal’s impact on competition according to the date the deal was notified (Seagate / Samsung)

19 octobre 2011 32

APPLICATION OF THE ’PRIORITY PRINCIPLE’ * The EU Commission was notified of the Seagate/Samsung transaction and the Western Digital/Hitachi transactions – both mergers involving hard drive disk businesses – within days of each other. In its decision on the Seagate/Samsung transaction (published on (...)

Lionel Lesur, Martina Maier, Philipp Werner The European Commission issues new best practice guidelines on antitrust proceedings

17 octobre 2011 607

The European Commission published on 17 October 2011 its new guidelines for best practices during antitrust procedures. The guidelines cover the main proceedings concerning alleged infringements of Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (cartel (...)

Lionel Lesur, Louise Aberg The French Competition Authority withdraws its authorisation of an undertaking’s purchase of rival commercial television company in the TV market and imposes a €30 m fine for failing to fulfill the 59 remedies imposed by the Authority (Canal Plus / TPS)

20 septembre 2011 28

WITHDRAWAL OF CLEARANCE DECISION AND EUR 30 MILLION FINE AGAINST CANAL PLUS FOR UNFULFILLED MERGER CLEARANCE COMMITMENTS* The French Competition Authority has taken a hard stance by withdrawing its authorization of French broadcaster Canal Plus’ purchase of rival commercial television company (...)

Lionel Lesur, Philipp Werner The Paris Commercial Court orders the French Competition Authority to disclose antitrust investigation documents (Ma Liste de Courses / HighCo / Sogec)

24 août 2011 639

On 24 August 2011, the Commercial Court in Paris ordered the French competition authority, the Autorité de la concurrence (Autorité), to disclose documents relating to the settlement of an antitrust investigation in the context of a private damages action. This order could significantly (...)

Lionel Lesur, Sergio Sorinas The French Supreme Court rules that the damage caused to the economy by an anticompetitive practice cannot be presumed (Bouygues Télécoms, SFR, Orange)

7 avril 2010 1791

Background This case is the latest episode of the saga of the « mobile telephony case« . In 2005 the French Competition Council imposed on the three leading French mobile operators (Orange France, SFR and Bouygues Télécom) a record fine of € 534 M for collusive practices consisting in (i) exchange (...)

Lionel Lesur, Sergio Sorinas The Paris Court of Appeal annuls a decision by the French Competition Council fining 7 physicians’ unions for colluding to increase their fees (Union nationale des médecins spécialistes confédéés / Association Familles rurales)

18 mars 2009 1378

In a ruling of 18 March 2009, the Paris Court of Appeal (the "Court") annulled a decision by the French Competition Council (the "Decision" and the "Council") to fine 7 physicians’ unions for an agreement among their members to increase fees charged to patients. These practices ran for varying (...)

2287 Revue

Jacques Buhart, Lionel Lesur Participations minoritaires et droit de la concurrence : Une réforme européenne nécessaire ?

décembre 2013 1443

Alors qu’elle avait été volontairement mise de côté par le règlement Concentrations no 139/2004 , la question du contrôle des participations minoritaires “non contrôlantes” est d’une actualité brûlante. La coexistence au sein de l’Union européenne de quelques systèmes nationaux de contrôle alors que la (...)

Emmanuel Frot, Jacques Buhart, Lionel Lesur Séminaire droit et économie “Amendes : Un an de mise en œuvre du communiqué sanctions”

mai 2013 843

Un an après sa publication, un premier état des lieux de l’application du communiqué sanctions de l’Autorité de la concurrence peut être dressé. Les contributions réunies dans cet article décrivent sa mise en œuvre et évaluent son impact sur le montant des sanctions imposées aux entreprises. En outre, les (...)