News & Insights
News & Insights
What’s happening at the firm, and what our lawyers make of the latest developments in competition, distribution, contract and commercial litigation
Rive Gauche Avocats has a new look
Our practice areas, life at the firm, the team… and Tsu, in a few images.
Rive Gauche Avocats joins The Galion Project’s circle of partner providers
The firm is now listed for the members of The Galion Project, the community of French tech founders.
At Moove On, serving Mobilians and its members
The firm welcomes Virginie Stauder de Pierrepont’s election as President of Mobilians.
LJA’s private dinner for competition law specialists
Emmanuel Tricot invited to the 2026 dinner hosted by La Lettre des juristes d’affaires.
Best Lawyers 2027: Emmanuel Tricot and Antoine Meyer-Woerth recognised
Emmanuel Tricot for competition and EU law, Antoine Meyer-Woerth among the “Ones to Watch”.
Welcome to Madeleine Combe
A student in European economic and regulatory law, Madeleine joins the firm for a two-month internship.
Two days of training in French and European competition law
Emmanuel Tricot and Julia Dao ran an interactive course for in-house legal teams at major companies.
Merger control: new French notification thresholds from 1 September 2026
Law No. 2026-403 of 26 May 2026 amends the thresholds for notification to the French Competition Authority.
API access on a global platform: Paris court penalises an abrupt price rise
Acting for AgoraPulse, the firm won findings of partial abrupt termination and significant imbalance, with the court keeping the case despite a clause giving jurisdiction to the Irish courts.
Legal 500: ranked again for EU, Competition and Distribution
Emmanuel Tricot, Gaël Peyneau and Antoine Meyer-Woerth are individually recommended.
Lawyers on secondment: the firm in Juristes Associés
How secondments work, and why they are worth it: the firm’s contribution to issue 666 of the fortnightly journal.
Chambers: among the twelve leading firms for distribution and commercial contracts
Just two years after it was founded, Rive Gauche Avocats is ranked by one of the leading international guides.
Décideurs – Leaders League 2026: four rankings in economic law
The firm is ranked for distribution, antitrust and franchising and, for the first time, for deregulation and regulated sectors.
Mobilians New Year reception 2026 at the Automobile Club
Emmanuel Tricot and Gaël Peyneau attended at the invitation of Francis Bartholomé, President of Mobilians.
Buying alliances: the French Competition Authority’s first competitive assessment
The Authority is reviewing the AURA and CONCORDIS alliances and has invited third parties to comment.
Online advertising: Google ordered to compensate the Rossel group
A French subsidiary can be held liable, even without a contractual link, where it took part in causing the harm.
Training in French and EU competition law
Two days of interactive training, with SKOLAE Formation, for in-house lawyers at major companies.
Best Law Firms: Tier 1 for competition law
In the ranking’s first French edition, the firm is one of just nine in the top tier.
Below-threshold mergers: the General Court confirms the Commission’s jurisdiction
Informing the competition authorities that may be concerned, early and precisely, is not optional.
Franck Sossavi joins the firm
Rive Gauche Avocats continues to grow.
French and EU competition law training: energy and banking
Two days with SKOLAE Formation for in-house lawyers at major energy and banking companies.
No-poach agreements: a €29.5 million fine, the start of a strong trend?
Decision 25-D-03 of 11 June 2025: a clearly identified risk for companies competing for talent.
Best Lawyers 2026: Antoine Meyer-Woerth makes his entry, Emmanuel Tricot recognised again
Antoine Meyer-Woerth named “Ones to Watch” in competition law; Emmanuel Tricot in competition and EU law.
At Drive to Zero, with the players decarbonising transport
Emmanuel Tricot and PHUSIS Avocats alongside mobility operators.
Emmanuel Tricot appointed as an arbitrator of the Chambre arbitrale de la grande distribution
Recognition of his expertise in resolving supplier–retailer disputes.
Profile: Hector Gitton-Quent
“Hector is our explorer.”
Legal 500 EMEA 2025: “EU Competition and Distribution”
Clients praise Emmanuel Tricot’s “pragmatic approach, adaptability, availability, responsiveness and flexibility”.
Grocery retail now has its own arbitral institution
The Chambre arbitrale de la grande distribution (CAGD) publishes its arbitration and mediation rules.
Décideurs – Leaders League 2025: antitrust, distribution and franchising
The firm ranked again in the European and economic law guide.
The “Urgo affair”: Emmanuel Tricot in Le Quotidien du Pharmacien
Defending pharmacists under the French “anti-gift” rules.
The 50/50 partnership: an explosive model? The Vilebrequin case
Gaël Peyneau and Hector Gitton-Quent, in Opinion Internationale, on the right questions to ask before going into business as equal partners.
Mobilians New Year reception at the Automobile Club
Ten years of partnership with Mobilians, its 24 trades and 170,000 businesses.
Profile: Antoine Meyer-Woerth
“Consistency, knowledge of the field combined with careful thought, and the ability to listen.”
Dawn raids in the agricultural inputs sector: knowing how to react at once
Leniency, challenges, timing: the questions facing raided companies.
Competition law training: grocery retail, wines and spirits, energy
Emmanuel Tricot and Julia Dao run a two-day course with SKOLAE Formation.
Meta fined €797.72 million: grounds for harmed advertisers
The European Commission sanctions the tie between Facebook Marketplace and Facebook, and unfair trading conditions.
Litigation funding: partnership with Qanlex
The firm partners with Qanlex (now Loopa Finance), a litigation funder.
Obstructing a competition investigation: a €900,000 fine for the Loste group
During a dawn raid you may stay silent or defer an answer, but you must not lie.
Foreign subsidies: the European Commission’s first decision
Foreign subsidies control means investors must plan their EU deals ahead.
Eight months on: the founders talk to Le Monde du Droit
Emmanuel Tricot and Gaël Peyneau on the firm’s growth, how it is run and how it works with clients.
Paris 2024: restaurants and shops should prepare their compensation claims now
Businesses hit by the Games’ security measures will have to prove abnormal and special loss. An opinion piece by Gaël Peyneau.
Competition law training with SKOLAE Formation (EFE)
Two days of practical discussion with in-house lawyers from rail transport and energy distribution.
Best Lawyers 2025: Emmanuel Tricot recognised
In competition law and EU law, as every year since 2018.
Mondelez fined €337.5 million: solid grounds for harmed distributors
The European Commission sanctions restrictions on cross-border trade in chocolate and biscuits.
The Urgo case: pharmacists do not deserve such treatment
Around 8,300 pharmacists are being pursued over benefits allegedly received from a laboratory. An opinion piece by Emmanuel Tricot.
Paying the heads of non-profits: what the law actually says
On the pay of the head of the Paris 2024 organising committee, an opinion piece by Gaël Peyneau.
The Legal 500 announces the firm’s launch: a “Firm to Watch”
Three months after opening, Rive Gauche Avocats enters The Legal 500 EMEA guide.
Neighbouring rights: a €250 million fine for Google gives press publishers solid grounds
The French Competition Authority fines Google for breaching its commitments to press publishers and agencies.
Emmanuel Tricot and Gaël Peyneau found Rive Gauche Avocats
After twenty-five years working side by side, the two lawyers launch an independent business law firm.
