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Independent firm dedicated to competition law, media law, intellectual property and technologies

The firm

NIDDAM-DROUAS AVOCATS is an independent firm dedicated to competition law, media law, intellectual property and new technologies.

From major French and Anglo-Saxon law firms, its two founding partners, Julie NIDDAM and Marie de DROUAS, use the skills and experience they developed there in order to provide their clients with a high-level legal service, responsive, tailor-made and competitive.

The Firm provides advice, assists its clients in implementing pre-litigation strategies and represents them in all types of proceedings, before competition authorities, civil and criminal courts, in plaintiff and defense.

Promoting a pragmatic approach, the Firm always seeks a transactional solution when possible and in its client’s best interests.

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THE TEAM

Julie Niddam
Julie NIDDAM
Partner
Intellectual property
mariededrouas
Marie DE DROUAS
Partner
Competition – Distribution
anne
Anne LAPORTE
Senor Associate
Intellectual property
MATHIEUANNE
Mathieu ANNE
Associate
Competition-Distribution

NEWS

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Julie NIDDAM

jn@niddam-drouas.com

01 83 79 27 40

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Julie NIDDAM est avocate au Barreau de Paris depuis 2006. 

Julie NIDDAM a exercé au sein d’un cabinet français de grande renommée pendant 10 ans avant de cofonder, le 1er janvier 2017, NIDDAM-DROUAS AVOCATS.

Dotée d’une parfaite maîtrise du droit de la propriété intellectuelle, des nouvelles technologies, des médias et des données à caractère personnel, elle est amenée à résoudre des situations complexes pour le compte de sociétés et de grands groupes nationaux et internationaux, tant dans les domaines émergents que les secteurs classiques. 

Avant d’intégrer le Barreau de Paris, elle a travaillé au service culturel du Consulat Général de France à Los Angeles et a été juriste d’entreprises, expériences qui lui permettent de comprendre les attentes de ses clients et d’y répondre.

Julie NIDDAM a été chargée d’enseignement au sein d’une école de commerce et intervient régulièrement dans le cadre de colloques spécialisés.

Julie Niddam est classée parmi les meilleurs avocats depuis 2017 dans de nombreuses catégories : 

– Droit de l’audiovisuel  

– Droit des données personnelles 

– Droit de l’informatique 

– Droit du cinéma 

– Droit de l’édition 

– Droit de la musique 

Formation

2005 : Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat (Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris)

2005 : DESS Droit de la propriété intellectuelle (Mention Assez-Bien) – Université Paris Créteil, sous la direction du Professeur Christophe Caron

2004 : DEA Droit de la communication (Mention Bien) – Université Panthéon-Assas, sous la direction du Professeur Jérôme Huet.

Languages

French

English

Marie DE DROUAS

md@niddam-drouas.com

01 83 79 27 40

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Marie de Drouas is specialized in EU and French competition law. She focuses on merger control, cartel and abuse of dominance cases, with a particular emphasis on the telecommunication, transport, consumer goods, real estate and energy sectors. She assists clients both on the plaintiff and defendant side. She has a specific experience in antitrust follow-on damages litigation.

Marie's practice covers all aspects of competition and distribution law.

She practiced with Clifford Chance in Paris within the Antitrust team for 10 years. She then set up her own practice before cofounding NIDDAM-DROUAS AVOCATS in 2017.

Before joining the Paris Bar, she worked in the Franco-British business team of an English law firm in London. ​ Marie is a member of the Board of the Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence (Lawyers practising Competition Law - APDC) and a member of the Association Française d'Etude de la Concurrence (French Association for the Study of Competition - AFEC).

Who's Who Legal: Marie de Drouas is celebrated by respondents as « an exceptional practitioner » and « a really brilliant competition lawyer », who delivers « impressive results». Marie de Drouas is celebrated by respondents as « an exceptional practitioner » and « a really brilliant competition lawyer », who delivers « impressive results ». 

GCR 100 : « Marie de Drouas spent 10 years in the competition practice of Clifford Chance before partnering with Julie Niddam to establish Niddam Drouas, a boutique firm specialised in competition law, media law, intellectual property and new technologies. De Drouas is supported by one associate who focuses on competition. The team is acting for Carrefour in four separate follow-on damages claims following the competition authority’s personal care products decision. The firm is counsel to French video game publisher Focus Home Interactive in proceedings before the European Commission regarding the enforcer’s probe into that market. In merger control, the team is assisting EBM and Lucia Holding in the acquisition of joint control over companies active in the supply of gas and electricity ».

Formation

Professional Master 2 in Business European Law, Paris-Saclay University

Languages

French

English

Anne LAPORTE

al@niddam-drouas.com 

01 75 77 31 80

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A lawyer since 2015, Anne Laporte joined the NIDDAM-DROUAS AVOCATS law firm in 2023, after having worked in Marseille and Parisian firms specializing in intellectual property law. 

Anne Laporte intervenes on issues of media rights, intellectual property and new technologies both in advice (transfers and licenses, CGV and CGU, IT contracts, GDPR compliance) and in litigation (actions for nullity, forfeiture and oppositions to the INPI and EUIPO, counterfeiting, unfair competition, press litigation, internet litigation etc.).

She has been a member of the Association of Practitioners of Trademark and Design Law (APRAM) since 2020. 

Formation

Master 2 Intellectual property law and new technologies from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Languages

French

English

Mathieu ANNE

01 83 79 27 40

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Mathieu ANNE is specialized in EU and French competition law. He completed a Master 2 in Competition and Contract Law at the University of Paris-Saclay and an LL.M. at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany).

After several experiences in Anglo-Saxon and French law firms, at the Court of Justice of the European Union and at the French Competition Authority, he joined the firm's Competition team in January 2023 and advises on both anti-competitive practices and merger control.

He is a member of the AFEC and is also a lecturer in competition law in the M1 International Business and Law at the Institut Catholique de Lille (Issy Les Moulineaux campus).

Formation

Master 2 in Competition and Contract Law, Paris-Saclay University

 
Languages

French

English

German