Firm Extends 16-Year Streak on GCR’s Ranking of World’s Most Elite Antitrust Teams
Latham earned a top three ranking in every antitrust category, including merger control, cartel, non-cartel, and private litigation.
Jacques-Philippe Gunther is a partner in the Paris office of Latham & Watkins and former Vice Chair of the firm’s Global Antitrust & Competition Practice. He advises leading French and international companies on a variety of complex, cross-border merger control, contentious antitrust matters, and state aid. Mr. Gunther advises clients before the European and French competition authorities on a broad range of anticompetitive practices and before French courts, with a particular focus on damages claims. He also has deep experience in complex Phase I and Phase II European and national merger filings and state aid.
Mr. Gunther has particular experience in the telecom, transport, energy, chemicals, media, defense, sports, and financial services sectors.
Mr. Gunther is a member of the Antitrust Commission of the "Club des Juristes," one of the most sophisticated think tanks including in-house and outside lawyers, and is also a member of the Antitrust Commission of the MEDEF. He is a former president of the FNUJA (Fédération des Unions de Jeunes Avocats – Federation of the Union of Young Lawyers) and a former member of the bureau of the French National Bar Council (CNB).
Latham earned a top three ranking in every antitrust category, including merger control, cartel, non-cartel, and private litigation.
Mike Egge voted as Dealmaker of the Year for groundbreaking work and his dynamic leadership within Latham and the antitrust bar broadly.
Partners Pierre-Louis Cléro and Jacques-Philippe Gunther have been named for the second consecutive year to a list of the Top 40 Lawyers of the CAC 40.