Joseph Vogel

Practice Areas

Joseph Vogel heads the antitrust department and coordinates the activities of the different teams of the law firm, each team being managed by 1 or 2 non-equity partners.

Member of the New York and the Paris Bar, Joseph Vogel heads up a dedicated competition and distribution law practice, advising long-standing clients from the CAC 40 at both European and national levels.

His expertise spans all areas of French and EU competition and distribution law and he is particularly known for tackling some of the most complex competition law matters in the automobile, aerospace, telecommunications, media & broadcast, retail, and energy sectors for clients such as: Hermes, Mattel, Playmobil, LVMH, L’Oréal, General Motors, Volkswagen group, Mercedes-Benz, Digicel, Beaumanoir Group, Wane Group, Bouygues Telecom, Bouygues Energie, TF1 and ENGIE.

Career

Joseph Vogel is one of the two founders of Vogel & Vogel law firm and is managing partner of the law firm. He founded the firm 34 years ago with his brother, Louis Vogel.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Union of European Lawyers (UAE)

Member of the French Association for the Study of Competition (AFEC)

Member of the Association of Lawyers Practising Competition Law

Member of the American Law Society

Member of the Association of Franco-German Lawyers

Member of the Deutscher Anwaltverein

Personal

Certificate of specialisation in ‘International and European Union Law’ (CNB - 2014)

Certificate of specialisation in ‘Commercial, business and competition law’ (CNB - 2014

Clients

Long-standing clients from the CAC 40 at both European and national levels such as the Bouygues Group (including Bouygues Telecom, Bouygues Construction, Bouygues Construction Expertise Nucléaire (BECN), Bouygues Energie & Services, Bouygues Bâtiment, Colas and TF1), Schneider Electric, Renault or Stellantis.

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC FRANCE – DEFENSE TO RPA / FCA

SYNDICAT NATIONAL DES FABRICANTS DE BOÎTES, EMBALLAGES ET BOUCHAGES METTALIQUES (SNFM) / (APPEAL)

FORBO GROUP / PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT (300 PROCEDURES)

PIERRE CARDIN / EU COMMISSION

BOUYGUES NUCLEAIRE / FCA

PETER HENNEN (APPEAL)

WANE GROUP

BOUYGUES TELECOM / APPLE

DIGICEL

GALLIANCE / CASINO – PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT

Work Highlights

2023 was another remarkable year for Joseph Vogel as he was instructed to work on some market-leading competition cases, particularly in the telecommunications, TV, aerospace and retail sectors. Merger cases were a key highlight.

Joseph Vogel continues to be active in the firm’s large and ongoing private enforcement cases such as acting for Digicel, for which he obtained a favourable decision before the Cour de cassation (French Supreme Court), or cases in defence to actions for damages for agro-food client Galliance, or Swiss group Forbo.

Joseph Vogel is indeed representing the Swiss Forbo group in a mass private enforcement litigation in defense against more than 300 different procedures for damages before the judicial, administrative and commercial courts.

Antitrust litigation is another strong activity, in important matters such as acting for Schneider Electric against an RPM objection, Pierre Cardin in an investigation conducted by the European Commission, Bouygues Construction Expertises in calls for tender practices.

This year, Joseph Vogel will also represent a trade association (SNFBM) in the appeal against the FCA’s condemnation decision, and Peter Hennen in challenging the decision of the Luxembourg Competition Authority before the administrative court of Luxembourg.

Other key cases include defending, Hyundai, Renault, Stellantis, or TF1 in distribution matters.

Education

Awards

Industry Sector Expertise

The firm is active in the acoustic, automobile, aerospace, energy, media, advertising, broadcast, telecommunications, transport & logistics, health, luxury, cosmetics, retail, electrical goods and agrifood sectors.