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Provided by Romain Ferla
Romain Ferla leads the Competition team of Weil Paris. Romain has significant experience in EU and French competition law matters, including merger control, cartels/abuses of dominance, and advising on distribution agreements, joint ventures, state aids. In merger control, Romain works both as counsel to purchasers, as counsel to sellers and as counsel to complainants. Major recent matters include advising Bain in the EU merger control procedure relating to its acquisition of Inetum, Ardian in the EU merger control procedure relating to its acquisition of Odealim, SRS Group on the French merger control procedure relating to its acquisition of several Almaviva clinics, Arrowhead on the French merger control procedure relating to its acquisition of Bihr, Chequers on the French merger control procedure relating to the sale of Altema to Sigefi, Sienna and CNP on the EU merger control procedure relating to the acquisition of ECT, Advent on several merger control procedures relating to the sale of Cobham Aero Communications to Thales, and Corsair in several EU state aid approval procedures.
Member of the Paris Bar since 1999.
Graduated from Sciences Po Paris, Université Paris II Assas and London School of Economics (LLM).
Provided by Chambers
Romain Ferla represents clients at both the national and European levels in contentious antitrust proceedings and private enforcement actions. He is particularly well regarded for his expertise in merger control matters, especially for clients operating in the private equity space.
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I find working with Romain is very easy as he gets directly into the sectors that he needs to analyse. He is very pragmatic and concrete is his approach.
Romain Ferla has strong commercial judgement, a familiarity with case law and legal precedent and the ability to think creatively around a complex situation.
I am very happy with Romain, in particular for his deep understanding of our complex business and for his expertise.
Romain Ferla provided a responsive service that completely met my expectations with a good level of execution and follow-up.
I find working with Romain is very easy as he gets directly into the sectors that he needs to analyse. He is very pragmatic and concrete is his approach.
Romain Ferla has strong commercial judgement, a familiarity with case law and legal precedent and the ability to think creatively around a complex situation.
I am very happy with Romain, in particular for his deep understanding of our complex business and for his expertise.
Romain Ferla provided a responsive service that completely met my expectations with a good level of execution and follow-up.
