Jean-Baptiste Douchy advises clients on the full spectrum of EU competition and regulatory law.

Jean-Baptiste advises public and private companies on:

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Abuse of dominance
  • The European Commission’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA)
  • EU Courts litigations

Before joining Latham, Jean-Baptiste worked in the Brussels office of another leading international law firm. He previously completed an internship at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition in the Energy and Environment merger unit.

Jean-Baptiste’s experience includes representing:

  • Anglo American in its planned sale of various nickel assets in Brazil to MMG
  • MSC in the EU second phase merger control review of its planned acquisition of joint control over Hutchison’s TERCAT terminal in Barcelona, Spain
  • SLB in its acquisition of ChampionX
  • A food and beverage company acting as a remedy taker in ongoing merger control proceedings
  • Orange in a 50:50 joint venture with MasMovil valued at €18.6 billion to combine their Spanish businesses
  • Aon in its planned US$30 billion acquisition of Willis Towers Watson
  • Mellanox in its US$7 billion acquisition by Nvidia, a leading communication technology company
  • A global technology company in abuse of dominance proceedings by the European Commission
  • A semiconductor company in a European Commission investigation relating to exchange of information
  • A major semiconductor company in abuse of dominance proceedings by the European Commission and several other competition authorities
  • A major semiconductor company in abuse of dominance proceedings by the European Commission*
  • An energy company in abuse of dominance proceedings by the European Commission*
  • A sport federation in abuse of dominance proceedings by the European Commission
  • Several leading technology companies in various strategic regulatory matters involving the EU’s DMA and the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC)
  • A leading technology company in strategic regulatory matters and litigation involving the EC’s DSA
  • CCIA in several ongoing litigations related to DMA and antitrust enforcement against large technology companies.
  • A leading technology company in its ongoing appeal against the first-ever DSA infringement decision

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham 

Bar Qualification

  • Brussels Bar - A List

Education

  • Maîtrise in Public and International Law, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2017
  • LLM in European Law and Economic Analysis, College of Europe, Bruges, 2016
  • MA in European and International Business, Competition and Regulatory Law, Free University of Berlin, 2015
  • MA in Law and Economics of Regulation in Europe, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, 2015
  • Certificate in Legal Studies, King's College London, 2014

Languages Spoken

  • French
  • English