Economic Law

Drafting of service, sale, supply and outsourcing agreements, terms and conditions of purchase and sale, commercial partnerships, manufacturing and subcontracting agreements, business transfer and lease management agreements, etc.; termination of business relations.

Setting up distribution, franchise, commercial agency or dealership & concession agreements; protection of exclusive or selective distribution networks.

Regulation of retail sales and promotional operations (games, lotteries, bonuses); advertising, customer loyalty programs, distance sales, solicitation; consumer credit.

Anti-competitive practices (cartels and abuses of dominant position), representation before the French and EU competition authorities; assistance in the context of investigations or dawn raids by French or EU competition authorities or by the European Commission; conduct of antitrust audits and compliance programs; merger controls: feasibility studies, merger notifications to the French and/or EU authorities, management of multi-jurisdictional notifications; State aid; restrictions on competition; unfair competition (i.e., no-poaching agreements, denigration, parasitic conduct).