Mélanie Thill-Tayara Joins Dechert

Dechert LLP is pleased to announce that Mélanie Thill-Tayara has joined the firm as a partner in the antitrust/competition practice resident in the Paris office. She was most recently a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP.

Clients turn to Thill-Tayara for her significant experience in antitrust and competition law. She regularly represents leading companies in merger notifications, conduct investigations and various other proceedings before EU and French authorities. She has handled landmark cases that have pioneered new standards with regard to essential facilities, abuse of dominance, and information exchange, and in the life sciences sector. Her previous experience includes working for the European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition, where she participated in more than 15 dawn raid operations.

"We are delighted to have Mélanie join our antitrust practice. She is a respected authority on issues pertaining to competition law and has developed a strong reputation not only as a litigator, but also as a trusted legal and business advisor on issues critical to clients. We are very pleased to augment our existing European capabilities with the addition of someone as talented as Mélanie," said Michael L. Weiner, co-chair of Dechert’s antitrust/competition practice group.

Joining along with Thill-Tayara are associates Sophie Pelé and Marion Provost with additional team members expected to join shortly.

“My team and I are thrilled to join Dechert, a firm with an antitrust/competition team that is recognized for its excellence in the field and its capacity to create strong relationships with other departments, notably with the corporate and securities group. The chance for our team to bring our competition, regulatory, and public law capabilities to help build in Europe an antitrust/competition department as robust as in the United States is a tremendous opportunity,” said Thill-Tayara.

Thill-Tayara has been recognized by Chambers Europe in the areas of Competition/European Law and Pharma/Life Sciences: Competition. She is listed in The Legal 500 France for EU Competition and Distribution as well as noted as a “Leading Individual” for Healthcare and Life Sciences. She is also mentioned in the Leaders League (2014) for her work with competition law and distribution in life sciences, pharmaceuticals and biotechs.

With more than 30 lawyers in Brussels, Frankfurt, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington D.C., Dechert’s antitrust/competition practice has the global capability to develop creative solutions to the most difficult antitrust issues in merger clearance, litigation and business planning. The firm is consistently ranked among the leaders in legal directories and was named Antitrust Team of the Year by Chambers USA in 2014.

Read the Press Release in French "Mélanie Thill-Tayara, associée spécialisée en droit de la concurrence, rejoint Dechert."

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