FREGET, Olivier

Olivier Fréget is a partner at Allen & Overy Paris heading the Paris EU & Competition team. He hold a post graduate degree in Private International Law and in International Business Transactions (University of Paris I) and a degree in Economics and International Relations (ILERI).

Olivier has specialised in EU and competition law since the very beginning of his career in 1990; his experience covers abuse of dominant position (in particular pricing practices such as predation, tying, bundling, squeezes, raising rivals’ costs, etc.), anti-competitive agreements, state aids, French Law restrictive practices and merger control. He has led several high profile private enforcement cases before the Commercial Courts. He has also represented clients before the General Court in particular in the context of state aid cases and merger decisions. Olivier has renowned expertise in the sector of the network industries (telecommunications, energy), the media (TV and radio) and pharmaceutical sectors.

He is author of numerous articles and wrote among others the France chapters of PLC Cross-border Competition and Leniency Handbooks, 2011, a number of chapters in the work: Concurrence, Santé Publique, Innovation et Médicament, January 2010, L.G.D.J; A New Legal System, l’ENA n°395, October 2009, Reflexions on Influence Practices and Competition Law: Lobbying, "Regulatory Negotiation", and/or "Regulatory Capture", Concurrences n°3-2006; Les mesures conservatoires devant le Conseil de la concurrence　: la «procédure conservatoire» en question? Revue Lamy Droit des Affaires, 2005, n°83 et n°84 and Bulletin d’actualité, Lamy Droit Economique, 2005, n°186 et n°187

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He has published articles in The Journal of Regulation:

- Where should the regulatory intervention of the French Competition Authority in the credit/debit card sector end? The Journal of Regulation, 2011, I-I-40, (To read this article, please, click here.)

- Ensuring Effective Cost Orientation Obligations: The Ofcom’s approach to repayment of overcharges, The Journal of Regulation, 2011, I-I.29., p.494-505. (To read this article, please, click here.)