Competition Law

Jacques Buhart focuses his practice on EU competition rules and mergers & acquisitions. He counsels clients on a broad range of complex competition matters as well as contentious proceedings before the European and French courts.

Jacques Buhart Partner

Tel: +33 1 81 69 15 01 jbuhart@mwe.com www.mwe.com

His merger experience includes representing Cellnex as the intervening party in the JV between Vodafone and Telecom Italia, advising TUI on its acquisition of Transat Voyages, counselling Mitsubishi Heavy Industry on the restructuring of Areva and the French nuclear industry, and as intervening party in the GE/Alstom merger, advising Canon on its acquisition of OCE in the Netherlands, and counselling TotalFina on its acquisition of Elf (second phase).

Jacques has significant experience in cartel defence. He coordinated a Japanese car parts manufacturer’s investigation in the EU, the US, Canada, Africa and other jurisdictions. He was also involved in the EU freight forwarding case, vitamins cartel case, and in several cartel investigations in France for GEA and Kuehne + Nagel.

In contentious matters, Jacques represented Cascades in the carton board cartel case before the Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg; he counselled Daiichi Pharmaceutical in the vitamins cartel case before the Court of First Instance; and Coca-Cola before the Court of Appeal in Paris against allegations of abuse of dominant position.

In compliance matters, Jacques has advised several international companies on their compliance programs, as well as providing counsel in various in-house seminars throughout Europe; such as for NGK Japan, Total, Metsaliitto, Alcatel Lucent and Toyota Motor Corporation.

Jacques has been a visiting professor of EU competition law at Aix-Marseille University since 1995, and at the University of Tokyo since 2004. He is a Member of the Board of the Sorbonne Law School. He has published widely on EU competition rules, including Leniency Regimes (fourth edition, Thomson Reuters, 2015).