Stéphane Dionnet
Stéphane Dionnet is co-head of McDermott’s Antitrust Mergers Focus Group and has over 20 years of experience practicing international competition law, and has experience liaising with competition authorities in the European Union, United States and Asia. Stéphane has advised global corporations on how to navigate complex multijurisdictional merger control matters. He has represented clients in numerous cartel investigations and has also successfully assisted companies in obtaining conditional immunity from the European Commission and other competition law agencies in and outside the European Union.
Private Equity Firms Beware | Inflation Reduction Act Likely to Trigger FSR Obligations
By Sabine Naugès and Stéphane Dionnet on Jun 11, 2024
Posted In Foreign Subsidies, Public Procurement
One year after its entry into force on July 12, 2023, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) continues to make headlines. The FSR allows he European Commission (EC) to investigate financial contributions granted by non-EU governments to companies active in the European Union and to impose measures to redress any uncovered distortive effects. Contrary to expectations,...
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First Dawn Raid Carried Out by The European Commission | Another Investigative Tool Deployed Under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation
By Stéphane Dionnet, Sabine Naugès and Hendrik Viaene on Apr 26, 2024
Posted In Foreign Investment, Foreign Subsidies, Public Procurement
Since the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) entered into force on July 12, 2023, the European Commission has increasingly started to wield the powers granted to it. It opened its first in-depth investigation into a public procurement process in Bulgaria in a case involving locomotives on February 16, 2024 (read more in our previous post here)...
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Public Tenders Under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation: What We Have Learned So Far
By Sabine Naugès and Stéphane Dionnet on Mar 22, 2024
Posted In Foreign Subsidies, Public Procurement, Transport & Logistics
The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (the FSR) sets out rules and procedures for investigating bids in the context of public procurement procedures (PPPs) if foreign financial contributions (FFCs) and tender value thresholds are exceeded. In the case of a mandatory notification, the European Commission (EC) will determine if foreign subsidies granted to the bidder would distort...
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