Proskauer

Edouard Sarrazin is an Antitrust partner and a member of the Firm's Private Capital industry group.

Edouard advises on French and EU competition law, as well as FDI and State aids matters. His practice encompasses both advisory and contentious work, with particular experience in complex competition investigations and mutijuridictional merger control procedures.

Edouard has extensive experience representing clients in high-profile cartel investigations and related competition proceedings. He regularly advises on strategic issues arising in complex, multi-jurisdictional matters, including coordination with economists and public affairs advisers, follow-on litigation, class actions, blocking statutes, and issues relating to the criminal liability of directors and employees.

His practice also includes advising on unilateral conduct, anticompetitive agreements, and a broad range of competition compliance matters.

In addition, Edouard has significant experience advising industrial groups and private equity sponsors on French and EU merger control matters across a wide range of sectors, with particular experience in the transportation industry. He advises clients throughout all stages of the merger control process, including due diligence, assessment of filing requirements, transaction structuring, preparation and submission of French and EU merger notifications, coordination of multi-jurisdictional filings, and representation of third parties in merger review proceedings.

Publications

• "Digital Guide: industry-specific analyses of artificial intelligence," 27 January 2023
• « Le Guide 3 du Numérique analyse sectorielle de l’intelligence artificielle », 6 October 2022 »
• European Commission publishes long-awaited updated regulation and guidelines on vertical agreements, 18 August 2021
• "Competition Policy & Digital Transformation: the issue of data," DLA Piper Digital Guide: Impact on Sectors, Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires (LJA), April 2019
• "Politique de concurrence & transformation numérique : la question de la data," Livre blanc : Le numérique et ses déclinaisons sectorielles, Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires (LJA), March 2019
• "Doing business in France", Thomson Reuters – Practical Law, February 2019