Marco Plankensteiner is a partner within the Competition Law Department in the Paris office. He handles the full range of antitrust, distribution and consumer protection matters.
He advises leading French and international groups regarding horizontal and vertical restraints in commercial arrangements and counsels companies in connection with pre-merger filings with EU and national competition authorities. He also represents French and foreign companies in cartel investigations and antitrust complaints before French and EU competition authorities and in litigation before French courts.
He has specific expertise with regard to antitrust issues related to financial institutions, including payment schemes and interbank fees, as well as to construction companies, in connection with industrial cooperation agreements.
He teaches competition law at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).