Racine

Merger control / Anti-competitive practices / State aid Private actions Foreign investments

Partner

Bastien Thomas specializes in competition law and co-heads Racine’s Competition Team.

With almost 20 years of experience, Bastien specialises in French and EU merger control, State aid, anti-competitive practices (cartels, abuses of a dominant position) and damages actions. Bastien also specialises in the regulation of foreign subsidies and foreign investment control. He regularly assists and represents clients before the French Competition Authority, the European Commission and French and European courts.

His sectors of expertise include automotive, mobility, food, energy, microelectronics and retail.

He has been a member of the Paris Bar in 2006 and joined Racine as Partner in 2015.

French, English, German, Italian

Lecturer at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University in European and International Competition Law within the Master 2 “Global Business Law and Governance” (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Columbia University and Sciences Po) and the Master 2 “Economic international law” (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University)

Founding member of the State Aid Monitoring Association (Association de Suivi des Aides d’État)

Member of the Association of Competition Law Practitioners (Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence)

Master’s degree, European Business Law (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas – 2004)

Master’s degree, European Business Law (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas 2004)

ESSEC Business School (2003)