It is essential for the authorities to have a dynamic vision of how markets operate, going beyond an analysis of their state at a given point in time.
Managing Director, Les echos publishing
May 2025
Competition law:New Challenges, New Contexts, Old Practices?
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Virtuous Anti-Competitive Agreements: Competition Authorities and the Challenges of Radical Innovation and Sustainability.
In terms of sustainability issues and radical innovation key to the future of the European Union, it is difficult to achieve major breakthroughs without this having repercussions on prices or, on occasion, without permitting certain cooperation between competitors.
By Emmanuel Combe, economist, Professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, associate professor at Skema Business School, former Vice-President of the French Competition Commission (2012-2022), Aurélien Hamelle, Managing Director - Strategy and Sustainability at Total Énergies, and Faustine Viala, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
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Competition Law and Economic Realities: So Far, So Close
Competition law and policy are supposed to be intrinsically connected to economic reality, thus contributing to the predictability of authorities' decisions and to legal certainty, factors driving growth and economic stability.
By Kelig Bloret-Dupuis, Legal Director Competition & Antitrust of the EssilorLuxottica group and lecturer at the University of Rennes, and Faustine Viala, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Sustainability issues must be handled differently, as they require much more industrial cooperation and economic development.
Managing Director - Strategy and Sustainability, Total Énergies
It is not clear today whether we can restrict competition on the grounds that this is supposedly virtuous from a sustainability standpoint.
partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Competition authorities are developing on sustainability and innovation. The only question is determining which cases will lead to developments and what the scale of such developments will be.
economist, Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, associate professor, Skema Business School
In competition law, not being able to write things down means wasting time, creating tensions, partial understandings, sources of dissatisfaction and the transmission of incomplete or incorrect information.
Legal Director Competition & Antitrust, EssilorLuxottica group
Extending legal privilege to in-house counsel would ensure smoother and more effective communication within companies to prevent anti-competitive practices.
partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
The European Union has introduced new legislative powers for carrying out investigations. Yhis extension raises questions about the extraterritorial application of competition law.
partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
When it comes to personal data, disputes are multiplying.
associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Internal audits allow for increased monitoring of individual behaviours that could constitute an infringement.
associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher