Victor Saint-Cast
Biography
Victor Saint-Cast is a senior associate in the EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs team. He joined Baker McKenzie's Brussels office in February 2022.
Before joining Baker McKenzie, Victor was an associate in an independent law firm where he was advising businesses on their distribution network organisation and litigation. He also worked at the European Commission's Directorate General for competition and in the legal department of several leading retail companies.
Victor was a teaching assistant in civil and consumer law at the University of Lille from 2017 to 2020.
Practice Focus
Victor advises clients on an array of competition law matters: antitrust compliance, vertical restrictions, cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, as well as EU and global merger control.
Victor's sector experience includes industry, consumer goods and retail, and digital.
Representative Legal Matters
- Acting as lead associate in securing clearance of global transactions in various competition authorities globally (including the EU, the US, the UK, China, Brazil, etc.), as well as foreign investment review.
- Advising various global companies in obtaining clearance of their transactions notifiable to the European Commission.
- Advising a large tech company on its compliance with the EU Digital Market Act, and in investigations and sector-wide inquiries in various jurisdictions across the world (the EU, the UK, Japan, Korea and France).
- Advising a company active in the financial sector in an abuse of dominance investigation including multiple rounds of RFIs, ultimately dropped by the European Commission.
- Advising a number of large companies on distribution agreements, including on risks arising in respect of resale price maintenance, territorial restrictions and online sales.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Teaching assistant, Consumer and civil law, University of Lille, 2017-2020
Admissions
- Brussels (E-List)~Belgium (2022)
- Lille~France (2018)
Education
- KU Leuven (LLM - International and European business law) (2021)
- Certificat d'Aptitude à la Profession d'Avocat (2018)
- Centre for Mediation and Arbitration of Paris (Inter-companies Mediator Training) (2017)
- University of Lille (Master of laws - Business law, distribution track) (2015)
Languages
- English
- French
- Spanish