Laurence Bary
Partner, Dechert LLP
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Laurence Bary is a partner in Dechert’s Paris office. She represents clients in cases concerning integrations, lawsuits involving anticompetitive practices and state aid matters before the French and EU competition authorities. She has experience in helping clients during full (Phase II) merger control investigations, including before the European Commission, and has represented leading companies in the digital sector during investigations conducted by various competition, administrative and judicial authorities.
Bary has developed impeccable credentials working for major international groups in the information technology, new technologies, aeronautical and defence sectors. She is listed as a leading competition lawyer in France (GCR 100 2020). She was also named as a ‘Future Leader’ by Who’s Who Legal in its 2020 competition guide.
Bary is a lecturer at the University of Montpellier (DJCE) and has published numerous interviews and articles on competition law in Global Competition Review, Concurrences and Revue Lamy de la Concurrence. She is also in charge of the French section of the Dechert Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker (DAMITT), the leading source of analysis for significant US and EU antitrust merger investigations.
