Jones Day’s European Antitrust & Competition Law Practice has approximately 40 competition lawyers across Europe’s major hubs – Brussels, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, and Paris. Each of these offices has a team of antitrust practitioners with local qualifications and working relationships with the national authorities. The resulting strength in both European Union as well as national competition law matters has proven to be particularly useful in cross-border merger control proceedings and antitrust investigations.
Jones Day Europe functions as an integrated organization, with a wide range of skills and experience available to meet the needs of our clients in all areas of the competition field, covering merger control, joint ventures, cartels and agreements, abuses, and state aid measures. The European practice also has significant competition litigation experience, both before the courts of the Member States and the European courts.
Bernard E. Amory (Brussels) coordinates our Antitrust in Europe practice.
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The European practice is a seamless component of the formidable network of 150 Jones Day antitrust counselors and litigators located in major business centers in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. This global network enables Jones Day’s competition lawyers to closely cooperate and therefore better reflect and serve the needs of their international clients.
The Brussels antitrust practice is the central hub for coordinating the European practice. Established in 1989, it has long-standing recognition in the rankings as a leading competition team. Our award-winning lawyers regularly advise leading international corporations in prominent cases at the EC and national levels. Distinctly international, several nationalities are represented by more than 15 attorneys, offering advice in several European languages. As the majority of the attorneys in the office have spent their legal careers in Brussels, the office offers an established Brussels-based legal capability and intimate familiarity with the European Commission and other EC institutions as well as the local business community. Our lawyers also bring valuable insights into government proceedings, drawn from previous service with competition enforcement authorities and the European courts.
Jones Day's antitrust team in Frankfurt and Düsseldorf includes individuals recognized as leading German lawyers in their practices. Our lawyers advise clients on the full range of competition and regulatory matters, including handling complex German, EU, and international competition law proceedings before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission. They also have extensive experience handling antitrust and state aid law matters before several competition agencies worldwide, including a number of high profile antitrust investigations, second phase merger review, as well as state aid cases. The German team also is known for having guided a significant number of large-scale merger transactions through multi-jurisdictional international merger control regulation.
Voted U.K. competition team of the year at the Legal Business Awards, the London antitrust practice offers skilled U.K. and EC competition law advice, as it regularly represents clients before The Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission in merger control and behavioral matters. In addition, as evidenced by our ground-breaking and award-winning U.K. courtroom successes, the team offers a breadth and depth of competition litigation experience.
The Madrid antitrust practice has achieved a nationwide reputation since its establishment in 2000 and is recognized by legal rankings as one of the best antitrust practices in Spain. The antitrust team provides counsel on Spanish and EC competition law and represents clients before the Spanish Competition Authority, the Spanish Supreme Court, and the European institutions. The Madrid practice has particular experience in complex combined competition and regulatory issues in the energy and telecommunications markets. It also provides antitrust counsel and litigation services in other sectors, such as retail, mining, agriculture, food, luxury goods, and heavy industry. Lawyers in the Madrid office also have experience in Latin America.
Our competition law team in Milan has significant experience with merger cases before the Italian and EC antitrust authorities, cartel investigations, dominant firm matters, and counseling, including competition and regulatory issues. It has particularly deep experience in the telecommunications, media, broadcasting, and bio-tech sectors. Our Milan attorneys also are active in private damages, unfair competition, and intellectual property litigation and are admitted to represent clients before the highest Italian courts, the Council of State, and the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation.
Jones Day’s Paris office opened in 1970 and has been consistently recognized as one of the leading competition practices in France. The Paris team has considerable experience in counseling and litigating both EC and French competition law, advising on a wide portfolio of French and multinational clients in the energy, telecommunications, transport, and postal sectors on EU and national competition law issues. Our practice ranges from merger notifications to the European Commission and the French Competition Authority, to assisting clients in cartel and state aid cases, to advising them on dominant firm issues and on commercial practices and vertical agreements.