Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2006, Laura Castex is a partner of Gide’s economic law and regulatory team in Paris. Laura specializes in European and French competition law as well as distribution law (distribution networks, commercial agreements, etc.) and consumer law, both in an advisory capacity and as a litigator.
As regards merger control, Laura advises major French and foreign firms for their investments and divestments, including in non-EU jurisdictions.
As regards anticompetitive practices, Laura has extensive experience in investigation proceedings and the design of bespoke compliance programs (private enforcement). She also assists our clients in private enforcement litigation.
Lastly, as regards distribution and consumer law, Laura regularly advises our clients in the formalisation of their commercial relations and in litigation arising from them, as well as in the context of investigations carried out by the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Prevention of Fraud (DGCCRF) and its local branches.
Laura holds a master’s degree in European law (University of Rennes, 2001) as well as a Postgraduate degree (DEA) in corporate and economic law (University of Paris I, 2003). She is also an alumnus of the Cachan Ecole Normale Supérieure and is an “agrégée d’économie gestion” (post graduate competitive degree in economy and management – 2003)
The Firm
Founded in Paris in 1920, Gide operates from 12 offices worldwide and has 550 lawyers, drawn from 35 different nationalities. With some 350 lawyers, including a hundred partners, Gide Paris offers some of the most respected specialists in each of the branches of national and international financial and business law.
Gide is one of the few law firms in France to offer high level legal expertise on all matters of consumer and distribution law. The firm is consistently recognized as the French market leader, ranking among the best across most practice areas in the legal guides and league tables. The firm is organized into international practice groups, each of which covers a specific sector of business law and its numerous specialties.
Gide also regularly works with the leading law firms in countries where it does not have offices. For this purpose, the firm has developed privileged relationships with prestigious European law firms such as Gleiss Lutz in Germany, Chiomenti in Italy and Cuatrecasas in Spain. Gide is also a member of several independent international networks covering all legal systems across the world. We are the exclusive member firm of Lex Mundi for France, the world’s leading association of independent law firms.
Gide’s economic law and regulatory team in Paris comprises around 20 specialized lawyers including 4 partners and 3 counsels. Our team advises companies from a variety of sectors, including pharmaceutical and healthcare, transport, energy, agro-food industry, media, banking, financial services, luxury goods, cosmetics, retail, etc. on various topics ranging from consumer law (litigation relating to unfair terms and the substantial qualities of the products, etc), advertising law (comparative and misleading advertising, etc), and commercial law (negotiation and drafting of commercial agreements, distribution networks, commercial agency, etc.) to competition law matters (mergers, abuse of dominant position, cartels, etc.).
