Biography: Competition

Philippe Chappatte is based in the London office, having been responsible for the running and development of the firm's Brussels office between April 1991 and August 1996. He is now head of the firm's competition group.

Philippe has been responsible for a large number of transactions notified to the European Commission under the EC Merger Regulation. His recent deals include acting for Bertelsmann in connection with the merger of its recorded music business, BMG, with Sony Music (unconditionally cleared twice after two detailed phase II investigations). He also took a lead role acting for Bertelsmann in its successful appeal to the European Court of Justice against the Court of First Instance's judgment in Impala.

He has extensive experience of UK competition law, including a number of Competition Commission investigations. He has advised Thomson Directories in relation to the recent Competition Commission market inquiry into classified directories and in relation to its complaint to Ofcom concerning BT's OSIS data pricing. He also represented Global in relation to the OFT's merger investigation into the GCap deal (which created the largest commercial radio group in the UK).

Philippe has broad experience of competition issues arising from the application of Articles 101 and 102 TFEU. He is currently advising Ericsson on its Article 102 complaint to the European Commission concerning Qualcomm's patent licensing practices. He is also currently representing one of the defendants in the GIS and power transformer cartel case.

He is president of the European Competition Lawyers' Forum, is fluent in French and has a reasonable knowledge of German.

Philippe is listed as a leading individual in the EU & Competition section of The Legal 500, 2009.