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Michel Petite

Michel Petite

Title
Of Counsel
Office
Clifford Chance, Paris | View map
Practice
Litigation & dispute resolution, Antitrust, competition, EU & trade
Publications
128

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+33144055244

Experience and career history

Michel Petite specialises in European Commission policies, community law and competition law, working in close co-operation with practice groups such as antitrust, trade, banking, taxation and government relations and public policy; International commercial law and litigation at the world Trade Organisation court.

Prior to joining the firm, Michel was the Director-General of the Legal Service of the European Commission heading a staff of 200 providing advice to the Commission on proposed legislation, decisions and investigations, as well as representing the Commission at the European Court of Justice and at the World Trade Organisation.

He has worked as legal adviser to three Commission Presidents: Jacques Delors, Romano Prodi, (as head of cabinet), and Jose Manuel Barroso. Throughout his time at the Commission he was heavily involved in competition (setting up the "merger" Regulation; director of "State aids"), internal market matters and Taxation. He participated in all the institutional reforms (Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon).

Master's degree in private and public law
Avocat at the Paris bar 1973
Joined European Commission 1979
Joined Clifford Chance 2008

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