Camille Puech-Baron
Camille is a Partner in the Competition, Regulation and Trade group based in Brussels.
Camille has over ten years of experience in EU competition law, with particular experience in the field of EU merger control filings (mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures), coordination of national merger control filings, antitrust investigations and related litigation (cartels and abuses of dominance), distribution agreements and cooperation agreements.
Camille has advised major international clients in a variety of sectors including, in particular, retail/consumer goods, TMT, energy, mining, and the automotive industry.
She has also represented clients before the General Court of the European Union and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Camille is recognised as a 'Global Elite Thought Leader' and as a 'Future Leader' for Competition by Lexology Index (formerly Who's Who Legal).
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- Mitsubishi Motors Corporation on the European Commission cartel investigation into end-of-life vehicle recycling
- Singtel, Deutsche Telekom, e&, SK Telecom, and SoftBank Corp. on obtaining merger control clearances for their AI joint venture agreement
- United Group on obtaining unconditional Phase 1 EU merger control clearance for its acquisition of Greek telecommunications operator Wind Hellas
- Uber on the merger control aspects of its US$ 3.1 billion acquisition of Careem (the largest ride sharing provider in the Middle East)
- Sky on its £22 billion acquisition by Comcast, competing bid by 21 Century Fox, as well as previous acquisitions by Sky including of Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia
- Lonmin on the merger control aspects of its takeover by rival mining company Sibanye-Stillwater
- an international telecoms operator on a number of cases involving allegations of abuse of dominance relating to pricing practices in proceedings before national competition authorities / national telecommunications regulators
- Google on its appeal before the EU General Court against the European Commission's decision in the Shopping/Search case
- Pilkington on its appeal of the European Commission carglass cartel decision to the General Court of the European Union and then to the Court of Justice of the European Union
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Background
Camille graduated from the University of Cergy-Pontoise (France) in 2009 (Master of Laws) and from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2010 (LLM). Camille also graduated from ESSEC Business School (France) (Master of Business Administration – MBA, 2009).
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