Vincent Jaunet is a lawyer specialized in competition law and one of the founding partners of the law firm Magenta. He advises on matters relating to competition law, state aid law, distribution law and contract law.

Career:

Vincent Jaunet graduated from ESSEC (1998) and holds a DESS in business law (DJCE) from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He was admitted to the bar on 2 March 2003 and began his career at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in January 2003 as part of the Europe, Competition and Economic Regulation team. In 2007, he joined the Antitrust & Regulatory practice at White & Case LLP before founding Magenta in 2008 with Sylvain Justier.

Fields of expertise:

Specializing in competition law (antitrust, merger control, restrictive practices, unfair competition and state aid), he has developed significant experience in the telecoms and energy sectors (for details of his expertise in the energy sector, see below) and regularly advises players in these sectors.

Vincent Jaunet handles litigation before both judicial and administrative courts, at national and European level. He also appears before regulatory authorities (notably before CoRDiS and the CRE) and competition authorities.

He also advises these clients – investment funds, banks, insurance companies and industrial players (including agricultural co-operatives and telecoms and energy operators) – on their external growth initiatives. In this context, he assists them with the necessary formalities relating to merger control or foreign direct investment control.

See the focus on Vincent Jaunet’s expertise in Energy below

Activity area:

Vincent Jaunet has also considerable expertise in energy law.

He frequently assists major operators, whether suppliers, producers, traders, or electro-intensive industrialists, on all the issues they may face.

This includes:

• The access to the network.
• The drafting and negotiation of gas and electricity purchase contracts.
• The development of projects in the renewable energy sector (wind, photovoltaic, biomass).
• Administrative procedures with the national and European Union authorities, as well as relations with the regulator.
• Etc.