Laurence Bary

Partner in the Paris office of Dechert. Her practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases and related litigation matters. She advises international clients in large merger control cases before the European Commission, including Phase 2 cases, and represented clients in a number of international cartel/dominance investigations, including several recent investigations in the technology sector. She has extensive experience of litigation both before the European courts in Luxembourg and the French courts, including representing high-profile companies in follow-on damage actions in France. Laurence Bary is listed as a leading competition lawyer in France (GCR 100, 2020) and was also named as a "Future Leader" by Who’s Who Legal in its 2020 Competition guide. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences-Po Paris.