Racine

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

Partner

Bastien Thomas specializes in competition and distribution law and co-manages Racine’s Competition – Distribution team.

With over 15 years of experience in French and European competition law, Bastien advises both French and international companies on their antitrust, merger control, State aid and private actions issues. Bastien also specializes in foreign investment control. He regularly assists and represents his clients before the European Commission, the French Competition Authority as well as French and European courts.

His sectors of expertise include automotive, mobility, agri-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)