Céline Verney > Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP Offices
17 AVENUE MATIGNON
CS30027
75378 PARIS
France
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Céline Verney
Work Department
Antitrust and Competition
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Benefitting from a wide experience, Céline Verney advises clients on all aspects of competition law.
Experienced in merger control, she has taken part in the defense of the first company ever fined by the European Commission for implementation of a transaction before antitrust clearance (so called “gun jumping”).
Céline also assists clients in international cartel cases prosecuted by the European Commission and other agencies throughout the world and in antitrust cases before the French Competition Authority, as well as in follow-on damages actions (including before administrative courts).
She advises clients on their commercial and distribution agreements.
Graduated from King’s College London and Sciences Po, Céline is a member of the Paris bar.
Languages
English, French
Education
LL.M., King’s College London, 2011
Master, Sciences Po, 2009
Lawyer Rankings
France > EU, competition and distribution
Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP houses a strong merger control practice, with excellent experience of advising on notifications for major transactions to the FCA and EC, as well as working alongside the firm’s international offices to handle filings in other jurisdictions. The team also has notable expertise in antitrust investigations and in proceedings before the courts and competition authorities, including in high-profile recent cartel cases. Eric Paroche, whose broad practice takes in merger control and FDI filings, antitrust proceedings and state aid, leads the department. Victor Levy, who is particularly active in antitrust litigation, and Céline Verney are also key members of the team.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
Firm Rankings
- Aviation finance
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Employment
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Private equity: LBO
- Shipping finance
- Administrative and public law
- Compliance
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Project finance
- Tax
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate