Jérémie Jourdan

Court Litigation

Representation of Servier in its appeal against the European Commission decision in the Perindopril case, the largest case to date concerning patent settlement agreements in the EU pharmaceutical sector, involving the application of both Articles 101 and 102 TFEU (T-691/14 and C-201/19 P and C-176/19 P; on-going).

Representation of Crédit Agricole in its appeal against the European Commission's Euribor decision (T-113/17; on-going), and its intervention in the HSBC parallel appeal (C-883/19 P, on-going). The case raises multiples issues regarding procedure (impartiality), substantive law (restriction by object, single infringement) and fines.

Representation of INCA Achat in its appeal against the 2017 European Commission dawn raid decision (T-254/17 and C-693/20 P).

Secured a significant victory for Japanese company Toshiba Corporation in its challenges before EU Courts against the Commission cartel decision in Cathode Ray Tubes (T-104/12).

Representation of Toshiba in the Gas Insulated Switchgear (T-404/12) and Transformers (T-519/09) cartel appeals.

Pro bono representation of a client before the Court of Justice regarding the compatibility of French bar admission rules with EU rules on free movement (C-218/19).

Merger Control

Assisted private equity fund Cobepa in the merger control process for the sale of JH Hillebrand to DPDHL, which included reviews in the EU, UK, US, South Africa, Chile.

Assisted French automotive component supplier Faurecia in securing clearances in over 10 countries for its acquisition of German automotive component supplier Hella (incl. EU, US, China, South Africa, Brazil, South Korea).

Assisted Finnish mining machinery supplier Metso Corporation in securing clearances in 20 jurisdictions, including EU, US, China, Canada (phase 2), India, Australia, South Africa, Chile, for its merger with rival Outotec.

Assisted Abu Dhabi sovereign fund ADQ in securing 17 antitrust and FDI clearances for its acquisition of a minority stake in commodity trader Louis Dreyfus Company.

Assisted Metso Corporation in securing global clearances for its acquisition of rival McCloskey including in the US, Canada, Germany, Austria.

Assisted Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile in securing unconditional phase II approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of rival Tele 2 in the Netherlands.

Assisted Metso Corporation in securing global clearances for the acquisition of pulp machinery equipment rival Aker Kvaerner (including phase II proceedings before the EC, in Case COMP/M.4187).

Assist Finnish group Luvata in its acquisition of Italian company Eco (including phase I proceedings with remedies before the EC, in Case COMP/M. 4750).

Experience at the European Commission

The review of the hearing officers' terms of reference and European Commission Best Practices in Antitrust Proceedings in 2011.

Various cartel investigations, including the freight forwarding case (case 39462).

Merger control phase 2 proceedings, notably: Olympic/Aegean I (M.5830) and Deutsche Börse/NYSE Euronext (M.6166) (both prohibition decisions); UPM-Kymmene/Myllykoski Paper (M.6342); Johnson & Johnson/Synthes (M.6266); SC Johnson /Sara Lee (M.5969); Western Digital/Viviti (M.6203); and Caterpillar/MWM (M.6106).

Other

Assisted the COMESA Competition Commission on the preparation of antitrust guidelines implementing its competition regulations.