Nicolas Chavonnand Valades

Nicolas advises on all aspects of EU and French competition law.

Nicolas joined Linklaters after working several years for the competition practices of another international law firm and of a French law firm.

Work highlights

Nicolas's experience includes:

• Crédit Mutuel / TargoBank: advise on merger control and foreign investment aspects of the acquisition of Oldenburgische Landesbank (financial services)
• Brisa Auto Estradas de Portugal: advise on merger control and foreign investment aspects of the acquisition of Axxès (transport)
• Apple: advise in the appeal before the General Court against the European Commission’s decision of 4 March 2024 in the Spotify case
• Groupement Mousquetaires / Intermarché: advise on merger control aspects of the acquisition of 200 retail outlets from Casino group (food retail)
• Stellantis: advise on merger control and foreign investment aspects of the acquisition of Groupe 2L Logistics (logistics)*
• Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Action Logement and the city of Villeurbanne: advise on merger control aspects of the acquisition of Société Villeurbannaise d’Urbanisme (real estate)*
• PAI Partners / ECG: advise on merger control aspect of the acquisition of Vacanceselect (campsite)*
• CVC: advise on merger control aspects of the acquisition of Stock Spirits (alcoholic beverage)*
• Koole: advise on merger control and foreign investment aspects of the acquisition of Alkion Terminals (storage operator)*
• PGGM and DIF: advise on merger control and foreign investment aspects of the acquisition of Saur (water infrastructures)*
• Oracle: advise on merger control aspects of the acquisition of Cerner (healthcare software)*
• Amazon: advise on merger control aspects of the acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (entertainment)*

* Matters handled before joining Linklaters

Nicolas holds an LLM from the College of Europe (Bruges) specialising in EU Competition Policy and Regulation (ELEA option) (2021). He also earnt a Master 2 in Advanced Business Law from Université Lyon 3 (2019) and an MSc in Management from EM Lyon Business School (2019). 

He speaks French, English and Spanish.