Particularly well known for its strong expertise in state aid, Racine has a comprehensive competition and distribution law offering. The team undertakes a significant volume of merger control cases, including complex phase II proceedings, and is also frequently involved in high-profile antitrust proceedings before the FCA, with notable recent experience in major cases in the technology and advertising sectors. Distribution matters, follow-on damages claims, and FDI and FSR filings are also among its core areas of expertise. Bastien Thomas and Guillaume Fabre, who are recognised for their excellent experience across the board, lead the team with distribution expert Sophie Pasquesoone and Valérie Ledoux.
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- "Perfect knowledge of concentration and state aid issues, as well as distribution law issues."
- "Guillaume Fabre is an exceptional lawyer. Extraordinary technical skills, responsiveness, and commercial sense."
- "Guillaume Fabre is an excellent lawyer."
- "Guillaume's team is very responsive, always available, and provides pragmatic advice."
- "Guillaume Fabre: exceptional technical skills, pragmatism, humility. François Aubin: excellent technical and drafting skills."
- "Very pragmatic and approachable team with high legal quality. Excellent communication skills and well-prepared legal documents."
- "Bastien Thomas and Guillaume Fabre. Both are excellent advisors, easy to work with, high legal quality."
Kernmandanten
- Mistal AI
- Apple
- MERMEC
- Airbus
- Automotive Cells Company
- Adloox
- Cafeyn
- Caisse des Dépôts
- Centrale Envergure
- Dassault Systèmes
Highlight-Mandate
Advising Apple in the context of the French Competition Authority’s investigation in relation to its technology to put users—and not advertisers—in control of their privacy, App Tracking Transparency (ATT).
Assisting MERMEC—a company specialising in the development of rail transport technologies and industrial applications—on the merger clearance and foreign investment matters of its acquisition of Hitachi Rail’s signalling activities in France, Germany, and the UK.
Advised Stellantis on the merger control aspects of its acquisition of 2L Logistics—an automotive logistics and transportation services specialist.
Anwält*innen
Führende Partner*innen
Die stärksten Partner*innen ihres Praxisbereichs, die eine führende Rolle in signifikanten Mandaten einnehmen und weitreichende Anerkennung unter Wettbewerbern und Mandanten genießen.
Partner*innen der nächsten Generation
Juniorpartner*innen, die im Markt von Mandanten und Wettbewerbern anerkannt werden und in einigen Mandaten eine Schlüsselrolle einnehmen.
Praxisleitung
Bastien Thomas; Guillaume Fabre; Valérie Ledoux; Sophie Pasquesoone
Weitere Kernanwält*innen
Estelle Leclerc; François Aubin