Eric Barbier de La Serre
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Contact

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Education

  • Harvard University (LL.M. 2000); University of Paris XI-Sceaux (Maîtrise 1997); Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) (Diploma with honors 1996); HEC Graduate School of Management (M.B.A. 1994)

Bar Admissions

  • Paris, Brussels, New York

Government Service

  • Référendaire and Chef de Cabinet of the president of the General Court of the European Union (2003-2011)

Eric Barbier de La Serre focuses his practice on European and French competition law with a particular emphasis on antitrust litigation, state aid, and merger control. He has handled numerous antitrust and state aid cases involving the telecommunications, electronic components, media, financial services, and energy sectors. Eric was a principal member in the first settlement procedure applied by the European Commission in a cartel matter (the DRAM case) in 2010. He also has extensive litigation experience before the EU courts and regularly advises on other aspects of EU law such as free movement of goods and services.

Prior to working in private practice at several international law firms, Eric served for five years as référendaire and then Chef de Cabinet to Bo Vesterdorf, at that time president of the European Court of First Instance (today's General Court) in Luxembourg. Eric has successfully resolved many merger control, cartel, and abuse of dominance cases before the European Commission and the Court of First Instance. He also has worked on U.S. merger and antitrust litigation cases.

Eric is a regular speaker and writer on European and French competition law and procedures before the EU courts.


Honors & Distinctions

  • Chambers

    Legal 500

    The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists

    Top "40 under 40" competition lawyers worldwide, Global Competition Review

Languages

French, English, Spanish
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