Philippe Chappatte

• T  +44 (0)20 7090 4424 (Direct line)
• E  philippe.chappatte@slaughterandmay.com

• London 
• One Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YY

Philippe is Head of the Competition Group.

He is resident in our London office, but also spends a proportion of his time in Brussels. He is responsible for the running and development of the firm’s global competition practice, including through our Beijing and Hong Kong offices and "best friend" firms.

Philippe has extensive experience of both EU and UK competition law with expertise in merger, cartel and behavioural cases in both jurisdictions.

Highlights include advising:

• BHP Billiton on its proposed iron ore production joint venture with Rio Tinto (subject to a detailed investigation by the European Commission)
• Bertelsmann in connection with the merger of its recorded music business, BMG, with Sony Music (unconditionally cleared twice after two detailed Phase II investigations by the European Commission) and on its successful appeal to the Court of Justice against the General Court's judgment in the Impala case
• Chi-X Europe on its merger with BATS (cleared unconditionally after a detailed investigation by the UK Competition Commission)
• Global Radio in the OFT’s merger investigation into the GCap deal (which created the largest commercial radio group in the UK - cleared on basis of divestment undertakings)
• Ericsson on its Article 102 complaint to the European Commission concerning Qualcomm’s patent licensing practices, on its acquisition of Nortel’s patent portfolio (Rockstar transaction) and of Nortel’s multi-service switching business (cleared by the European Commission after concessions)
• one of the defendants in the GIS and power transformer cartel cases
• INEOS on its acquisition of the ChlorVinyls business of Tessenderlo

Philippe is listed as a leading individual in the 'Competition/European Law: Non-contentious' section of Chambers UK, 2012  (Band 1) and for EU and competition in The Legal 500 UK, 2011.

He is the President of the European Competition Lawyers Forum (which is used as a sounding board on policy and practice-related issues by the European Commission’s Competition Directorate General). He is fluent in French and has a reasonable knowledge of German.