Profile: Jean-Patrice de La Laurencie

Competition

Biography: Competition

Jean-Patrice de La Laurencie co-heads the Paris office competition team of White & Case.

He concentrates on competition, regulatory, and EU law and has over 20 years' experience as a competition specialist in both public and private practices.

His areas of expertise include merger control assistance in relation to investigations by competition authorities and to antitrust compliance, representation of national and international companies as well as governments before the European and French competition authorities and courts.

Before becoming a lawyer in 1990, Mr de La Laurencie was deputy director general of the French Competition, Consumer Affairs and Anti-Fraud Department. He made the largest part of his administrative career (1970-1989) within the Ministry of Economy and Finance, as a specialist of anti-inflation and antitrust matters.

He also served as adviser in Jacques Delors' Cabinet when the latter was the French minister of economy and finance, and as financial advisor at the French Permanent Representation to the European Commission in Brussels.

He has been a lecturer on competition law at University of Paris II since 1996, at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris since 1992 and at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales since 1999. He has written numerous articles on antitrust issues and a book on French merger control; Le contrôle français des concentrations, 2nd edition 2003, co-author Jean-Mathieu Cot.

An attorney at law since 1990, he was awarded the decoration of chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite.