de Fortanier, Agnès

Agnès de Fortanier

Associate

agnes.defortanier@lw.com
    de Fortanier, Agnès

    Agnès de Fortanier

    Associate

    agnes.defortanier@lw.com

    Profile

    Agnès de Fortanier is an associate in the Paris office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice. Agnès advises clients on EU and French competition and regulatory law.

    Agnès represents international companies before the European Commission (EC) and the French Competition Authority (FCA) in merger control proceedings, cartels and abuse of dominance investigations, and coordinates multijurisdictional merger and foreign investment control filings for global transactions.

    She also worked in-house supporting PAI Partners legal teams in all competition and foreign investment control law related matters during a secondment in 2025.

    Prior to joining Latham, Agnès worked as an intern at an international law firm and in the compliance team of PAI Partners.

    Experience

    Agnès’ recent experience includes advising:

    • Ares in obtaining global antitrust clearance for its US$3.7 billion acquisition of GCP International
    • TKO, a global leader in sports and entertainment, in the new boxing promotion launch with Sela, a leading entertainment conglomerate, and HE Turki Alashikh
    • CVC for its acquisition of Partners in Pet Food involving global antitrust filings and foreign investment control filings
    • PAI Partners and its portfolio company Areas for their acquisition of the motorway catering business of competitor Group Sighor (French Phase 1 with remedies)
    • L’Oréal in obtaining global antitrust clearances for its US$2.5 billion acquisition of Aēsop, a global luxury beauty brand
    • An energy company in obtaining global antitrust clearances for LNG projects
    • A global e-commerce platform in the context of a consumer protection procedure and compliance matters
    • A confidential client on dawn raids conducted by the French Ministry in relation to suspected cartel between competitors in the context of tenders in the industrial cleaning sector in France
    • An engineering group in a cartel investigation regarding information exchange, price-fixing, no-poaching practices following a dawn raid conducted by the FCA

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • Avocat (Paris)

    Education

    • MA in Economic Law & Economic Litigation and Arbitration, Sciences Po Paris, 2020
    • BA, Sciences Po Paris, 2017

    Languages Spoken

    • English

    Practices

    News & Insights

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