Overview
Daniel is a Managing Associate in the Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group of Linklaters in Paris.
He advises on all aspects of EU and French competition law, including litigation, antitrust compliances issues and merger control. His past experience also includes litigation before commercial courts in relation to contractual agreements and commercial arrangements. Daniel assists clients from a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on technology, patents, life sciences, sports and FMCG/ retail.
Daniel spent a year on secondment within Nestlé’s Global Antitrust team based in Vevey, Switzerland.
He regularly lectures students and trainee lawyers on competition law and has published several articles in legal journals such as Concurrences and LawInSport.
Experience
Recent significant matters in which Daniel has been involved include:
- Advising LG Electronics France in connection with the first hybrid settlement decision by the French Competition Authority, following a procedure that lasted eleven years and involved around twenty players in the home appliances sector (17 manufacturers, two distributors, and one professional association). The French Competition Authority’s decision, involving around twenty players in the home appliances sector (17 manufacturers, two distributors, and one professional association), sanctions vertical practices and the exchange of information between competitors.
- Advising Groupement Les Mousquetaires – Intermarché on (i) the acquisition of 90 Mestdagh supermarkets in Belgium where the transaction was first submitted to the European Commission’s review to ask for a referral to the Belgian Competition Authority which was granted. The acquisition is one of the most important of the Belgian food retail sector in 2022; and (ii) the successive acquisitions of 61 then nearly 200 retail outlets from Casino Group in France with derogations from the suspensive effect of merger control.
- Advising Ardian on the antitrust aspects of the acquisition of 100% of Verne (formerly Verne Global), a leading data centre platform headquartered in the UK and diversified across Northern Europe, from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9). The acquisition required obtaining merger control and foreign direct investment clearances in Finland and Iceland.
- Advising Samsung BioLogics in its USD 2.3 billion agreement with Biogen to acquire its stake, and therefore full ownership, in the 50/50 Samsung Bioepis joint venture. The deal was cleared by the European Commission well in advance of standard deadlines for Phase I merger review.
- Advising Nestlé on an investigation launched in 2019 by the French Competition Authority on an Article 101 TFEU case on Bisphenol A. If some trade associations and companies were fined, charges were dropped against Nestlé as the practices were found to be time-barred.
- Advising GIP in its acquisition of New Suez, through a consortium including, alongside GIP, Meridiam, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and CNP Assurances. New Suez includes the companies and activities divested by Veolia following its acquisition of Suez and accounts for approximately half of Suez.
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