Distribution & Competition
The Distribution/Competition/Consumer Affairs team provides both national and international advisory and litigation services and includes major players in the fast-moving consumer goods, agri-food and restaurant sectors among its clients.
Distribution law
- Development of distribution networks: franchise, commercial agency, selective distribution
- Premature termination of business relationships
- Relations between manufacturers and distributors: central purchasing and listing bodies, partnership agreements, procurement contracts
- Marketing of products: labelling, misleading commercial practices, product liability, parallel imports
- Consumer relations
Competition law
- Pricing policies: General Terms and Conditions of Sale, General Terms and Conditions of Purchase, invoicing, pricing differentiation, trade negotiation, trade cooperation
- Anti-competitive practices: cartels, abuse of a dominant position, abuse of economic dependency
- Practices which restrict competition: loss leading, price fixing, delisting
- Unfair competition and parasitical business practices
- Competition investigations
- Merger: notification of French and EU operations, case follow-up with the relevant authorities
Consumer law
- Consumer information: labelling, advertising, sales promotion
- Marketing: Hypermarkets and supermarkets, distance selling, e-commerce, enhancing the value of products
- Litigation, regulation of fraud: liability litigation, criminal litigation