Antitrust/Competition

Partner

Laurence Bary focuses her practice on EU and French competition law, and represents clients in cases concerning mergers, anticompetitive practices before the French and EU competition authorities, and in State aid matters. She has experience in helping clients during full (Phase II) merger control investigations, including before the European Commission, and has represented leading companies in the digital sector during investigations conducted by various competition, administrative, and judicial authorities.

Ms. Bary has developed impeccable credentials working for major international groups in the information technology, new technologies, aeronautical, and defense sectors.

She is a lecturer at the University of Montpelier (DJCE) and has published numerous articles on competition law in Concurrences and Revue Lamy de la Concurrence. Prior to joining Dechert as a partner, she worked at another international law firm in Paris and Brussels.

Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2006 Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, 2006 Université de Paris XI - Paris-Sud, M.A. in EU Business Law, 2007