Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier announces the appointment of Philippe Guibert and Alexandre Eberhardt as partners

Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier announces the appointment of Philippe Guibert and Alexandre Eberhardt as partners. They will join Guillaume Aubron and Constance Bocket in the firm’s competition law team effective 19 October 2026, accompanied by four associates.

These appointments come during a period of particularly strong activity for the firm in both mergers and acquisitions and strategic litigation. Since the beginning of the year, the firm has welcomed six new partners across its mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and public and regulatory law practices. The appointment of Philippe and Alexandre reinforces the firm’s competition law practice, which will now have four partners and a dozen associates.

The firm’s competition law practice draws on the extensive experience built up since it was established by Didier Théophile in 2002, and to which Guillaume Aubron and Constance Bocket have contributed for more than fifteen years. The arrival of Philippe and Alexandre further enriches that expertise. With four specialist partners with common values and a shared strategic vision, the firm remains ideally placed to continue serving its clients with the highest standards of rigor on the most complex and strategic matters involving merger control, as well as investigations and litigation concerning anticompetitive practices, before French and European Union authorities and courts and internationally.

The firm is delighted to welcome Philippe and Alexandre and to further strengthen its leading position in competition law.

Biographies

Philippe Guibert has advised French and international groups across a wide range of sectors on the full spectrum of competition law matters for over twenty-five years. His practice covers all aspects of competition litigation, including competition investigations, criminal investigations into anticompetitive practices, cartels, abuse of dominant position, state aid, distribution network issues and damages claims arising from competition law infringements. In this respect, Philippe has acted in most of the major cartel and abuse of dominant position cases in France over the past fifteen years. He also has extensive expertise in French and European merger control, including major international transactions.

Alexandre Eberhardt has practiced law for over fifteen years. His practice covers French and European merger control, antitrust law and restrictive practices law, including both advisory work and litigation. He also has considerable expertise in follow-on damages claims arising from decisions by competition authorities and in distribution law, including commercial contracts and distribution networks.