The Distribution/Competition/Consumer Affairs team provides both national and international advisory and litigation services to major players in the fast-moving consumer goods, agri-food, restaurant, insurance and media sectors.
Specialists
- Development of distribution networks: franchise, commercial agency, selective distribution
- Termination of business relationships
- Relations between manufacturers and distributors: central purchasing and listing bodies, partnership agreements, procurement contracts
- Tariff policies : general terms and conditions of purchase and sale, billing, tariff differentiation, trade negotiation, trade cooperation
- Restrictive practices: resale at a loss, fixed pricing, de-referencing
- Unfair competition, parasitism and out-of-network resales
- Anti-competitive practices: cartels, abuse of a dominant position, abuse of economic dependency
- French and European competition investigations
- Actions for damages
- Merger: notification in France and to the European Commission, case follow-up with the relevant authorities
- State aid law
- Product control: labelling, deceptive marketing practices, product liability
- Consumer information: advertising and sales promotion
- Marketing methods: hypermarkets and supermarkets, distance selling, e-commerce
- Litigation, regulation of fraud: liability litigation, criminal litigation