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Mr Marco Plankensteiner

0153933000 mplankensteiner@lpalaw.com

Position

Partner

Career

Marco Plankensteiner is partner in Competition and Economic Regulation laws

Specialising in French and European law, Marco assists his clients in competition investigations and defends them in litigation before the French Competition Authority and the European Commission. He intervenes in competition law disputes, particularly in actions for damages, before the French courts.

Marco has acquired solid experience in merger control, both at national and European level, and regularly coordinates multi-jurisdictional notification files on a global scale and handles also foreign subsidies control and foreign direct investment filings.

He advises its French and international clients on the competition law aspects of cooperation agreements (R&D, joint production and marketing, joint ventures, supply, subcontracting) and supply and distribution agreements (selective distribution, franchise networks, commercial policies).

Marco regularly represents French and foreign companies in litigation relating to French economic law (framework for commercial relations, pricing and invoicing regulations, advertising) and consumer law (unfair commercial practices, unfair clauses, distance selling, e-commerce), as well as in commercial litigation.

A native German and Italian speaker, Marco also assists German, Austrian and Italian companies in France with their investments and transnational commercial relations.