Anne-Sophie Perraut

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Anne-Sophie Perraut's practice focuses on European Union (EU) and French competition law matters. In addition to her antitrust practice, she regularly assists clients on regulatory matters and other aspects of EU law, particularly in the electronic communications sector.

Anne-Sophie's experience spans all areas of competition law, including merger control, cartels, abuse of dominance, and State aids. She works regularly on cross-border merger cases, guiding companies from premerger counseling through all steps of the notification process.

Anne-Sophie has been involved in several complex antitrust investigation cases at both EU and national levels, helping companies respond to the competition authorities' requests for information, appeal antitrust decisions before the General Court of the EU or national courts, and implement compliance programs.

Anne-Sophie also has litigation experiences before the EU and French courts, both on competition and regulatory law matters. She was part of the team that successfully represented Biocom California in the landmark Illumina case (C-611/22) in which the European Court of Justice invalidated the European Commission's unlawful new Article 22 policy asserting jurisdiction over transactions falling below EU and national notification thresholds.

Experience

  • Luxembourg secures full dismissal of State aid complaintJones Day successfully represented the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg ("Luxembourg") in a European Commission investigation initiated in 2021 following a complaint regarding the compatibility with State aid rules of Luxembourg's Large Scale Testing ("LST"), an ambitious nationwide campaign to monitor and control the spread of COVID-19 through free and voluntary testing.
  • Eramet, Renault, and Suez join forces to recycle end-of-life electric vehicle batteriesJones Day advised Eramet S.A., Suez RV France S.A., and The Future Is Neutral (a subsidiary of Renault S.A.) on the merger control and antitrust aspects of a transaction to create two vertically integrated joint ventures ("JVs") to provide an innovative recycling solution for end-of-life lithium-ion ("Li-ion") batteries for electric vehicles in Europe.
  • Randstad forms joint venture combining its job board business, Monster, with CareerBuilderJones Day advised Randstad N.V., a multinational publicly traded talent company, in connection with the formation of a joint venture combining its job board business, Monster, with CareerBuilder, a subsidiary of investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, Inc.
  • Lamb Weston acquires remaining interest in European joint venture Lamb-Weston/Meijer for €700 millionJones Day advised Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. in the €700 million acquisition of the remaining equity interests in Lamb-Weston/Meijer v.o.f., its European joint venture with Meijer Frozen Foods B.V.
  • J.M. Huber acquires Biolchim GroupJones Day advised J. M. Huber Corporation in the acquisition of Biolchim Group, a leading producer and distributor of specialty plant nutrition and biostimulants, from private equity firms NB Renaissance and Chequers Capital and the Biolchim Group management team.
  • T-Mobile closes European Commission investigation into network sharing with commitmentsJones Day represented T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. in an investigation launched by the European Commission in 2016 in relation to the mobile network sharing agreements concluded between T-Mobile and its competitor CETIN/O2, in the Czech Republic.
  • EDF obtains full dismissal of antitrust complaint in FranceJones Day secured the complete dismissal of a complaint brought against EDF (Electricité de France) by a French association of energy retailers, l'ANODE, before the French Competition Authority ("FCA").
  • EDF acquires 50% of Orange ConcessionsJones Day acted as antitrust counsel to EDF Invest on the merger control/antitrust aspects of its acquisition (together with the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) and the Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance (CNP)) of 50% of the capital and voting rights of Orange Concessions which is active in the roll out of fiber in France in less densely populated areas.
  • SUEZ sells its SUEZ Recycling & Recovery operations to PreZeroJones Day advised the French listed company SUEZ SA in its largest sale of SUEZ Recycling & Recovery operations - excluding plastic recycling and hazardous waste treatment activities - in four continental Europe countries: the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, and Poland to PreZero, the environmental division of Schwarz Group.
  • Suez sells Suez Nordic to Prezero InternationalJones Day advised Suez SA, a French utilities company, in the sale of Suez Nordic AB to Prezero International GmbH, a subsidiary of the Schwarz Group.
  • Furukawa Electric and Superior Essex global joint venture finalizedJones Day advised Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. in its finalization of a global joint venture with Superior Essex Inc.
  • EDF and Masdar to form energy services companyJones Day acted as antitrust counsel to EDF (Electricité de France) in the formation of a joint venture company with Masdar (a subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company) dedicated to energy efficiency and distributed solar power generation projects.
  • Wabtec and GE Transportation merge in $11.1 billion transactionJones Day advised Wabtec Corporation in a Reverse Morris Trust merger with GE Transportation, valued at $11.1 billion.
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    December 2017 Commentary

    CJEU Issues Long-Awaited Coty Decision on Luxury Goods Supplier's Online Platform Ban

    August 2016 External Publications

    Big data and competition law in the digital sector: Lessons from the European Commission's merger control practice and recent national initiatives, Revue Concurrences, N° 3-2016 (article selected for the 2017 Antitrust Writing Awards)

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