Mathieu Relange

Mathieu Relange is counsel at Geradin Partners. Before that, Mathieu was counsel at EUCLID Law. Earlier in his career Mathieu a senior associate at Bird & Bird in Brussels, and an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

Mathieu has practiced competition law for more than 10 years. He has spent most of his career in Brussels, where he has developed a strong expertise in EU competition law proceedings. As a French-trained lawyer and a member of the Paris bar, Mathieu has also assisted clients before the French Competition Authority.

Mathieu’s practice covers all aspects of competition law, with a strong focus on innovative markets. Mathieu has worked on several high-profile investigations of the European Commission such as the Google Shopping abuse of dominance case and the E-book collusion case (Apple case). He has also filed several applications before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

• PKN Orlen in relation to its merger with Grupa Lotos.
• Adient in relation to the creation a joint venture with Boeing (European Commission).
• Rubycon Corporation in relation to the EC cartel investigation in the capacitors sector, and in relation to its appeal before the General Court of the European Union.
• A French provider of IT services in relation to a complaint before the European Commission for abuse of dominance against a US IT company.
• Google in relation to the EC investigation on Google Shopping, and to several investigations of the French Competition Authority.
• Medtronic in relation to its merger with Covidien (European Commission).
• Hachette Livre in relation to the EC investigation in the e-book case.
• LVMH in relation to the EC investigation in the luxury watch case.
• O2 in relation to the EC’s investigation over network sharing agreements in the Czech Republic
• BNP Paribas Fortis on the merger with Fortis Commercial Finance (European Commission)
• GS1 in relation to various competition law questions

• LLM in Competition, Innovation and Information Law, New York University, 2014
• Ecole normale supérieure (Ulm), Paris, 2008
• Master in French Administrative Law, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Assas, 2007

Paris, Brussels

English, French

• Mathieu regularly teaches competition law at the University of Rennes 1.

• Email: mrelange@geradinpartners.com
• Phone: +32 491 61 50 86