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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 ».
Professional Master 2 in Business European Law, Paris-Saclay University
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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).
Master 2 in Competition and Contract Law, Paris-Saclay University
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