Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• French

Lawyer Overview

Eric Morgan de Rivery specializes in EC and French competition law. He advises on all aspects of EC legislation and state aids. He has considerable experience in cartel cases, abuses of dominant positions, and other proceedings before the European Commission, including merger control. Since the early 1980s he has advised companies on deregulation in various fields, including the postal sector, telecommunications, transport, and energy markets.

After graduating from Harvard, he worked with U.S., U.K., and French law firms in New York and Paris and also served a traineeship with the DG Competition of the European Commission. For the past 20 years he has divided his time between Brussels and Paris.

Eric regularly acts in cases before the European Commission and in judicial review and appellate cases before the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice of the EC in all areas of EC law. He also represents clients before the French courts and the French Competition Council.

Eric is ranked yearly by PLC Which lawyer? as one of the top five competition lawyers in France and by Chambers Global as a leading individual in competition and antitrust law. He is fluent in English and is the author of numerous articles on EC law.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law
• General Antitrust Counseling
• Antitrust Litigation
• Antitrust Mergers/Joint Ventures
• International Cartel Investigations
• State Aid
• Antitrust Intellectual Property
• Energy
• Energy Regulatory
• Airlines & Aviation

Representative Cases

• Acquisition by Recordati S.p.A.
• Acquisition of Amena
• Acquisitions
• Antitrust Litigation
• Appeal of French Competition Council Charges Against Oil Companies
• European Communities Constitutional Litigation
• European Court of First Instance Appeal
• European Court of Justice Appeal
• Joint Venture with Gaz de France
• Private transaction for the implementation of Clean Development Mechanisms as defined by the Kyoto Protocol , (2006)
• Real Estate Joint Venture
• State aid case involving the postal services sector

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Complex Litigation, Copyrights, Deceptive Trade Practices, Intellectual Property Law, International Antitrust, International Intellectual Property, International Law, International Transactions, Litigation & Appeals, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Patents, RICO Act, RICO Act, Trade Regulation, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• Brussels, Belgium
• Paris, France

Education

• U de Tours - France

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: EU Adopts New Regulation For European Community Air Transportation, 2008
• Antitrust Alert: European Commission Clears Bank Rescue Packages Under State Aid Rules, 2008
• The EU Playing Its Green Card to Reduce Emissions in the Field of Aviation, Jones Day Airlines and Aviation News Blast, 2008
• A Seemingly Paradoxical U-Turn Attitude of the European Commission Vis-à-Vis Airlines, Jones Day Airlines and Aviation News Blast, 2008
• Case COMP/M.3410 Total/Gaz de France Merger Control as a Tool to greater Liberalisation in the Gas Sector, coauthor, European Competition Law Review, 2005
• Controlling state aids, Competition Law Insight, 2005
• L'impact des réformes récentes du droit communautaire de la concurrence sur le traitement des transferts de technologie, LGDJ - Droit et économie de la propriété intellectuelle, 2005
• EC Regulation 1/2003 : Implications for private enforcement of competition law, 2004

Address

120, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris 75008, France

Phones

33.1.56.59.38.69 / 32.2.645.15.08 (Brussels) (Business Phone)

Faxes

33.1.56.59.39.38 / 32.2.645.14.45 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.jonesday.com