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Mathias Kuhn

Senior Associate
About

Mathias advises companies in the industrial, consumer goods (including food products), technology, media and sports sectors on strategic transactions. He provides day-to-day advice on all their industrial and commercial projects: procurement, sourcing and logistics, supplier relationships, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, sales, distribution, B2B and B2C customer relations, e-commerce, marketing, advertising, sales promotions, digital transformation and the design and launch of new strategic projects.

Professional QualificationsAvocat admitted to the Paris Bar

EXPERIENCE

  • Day-to-day advice to a food supplier in its relationships with distributors.
  • Advising a company in the automotive industry on its communications related to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  • Advising a leading distribution company on setting up an online sales platform for consumer and professional clients.
  • Secondments within the legal departments of leading companies in the technology* and aerospace sectors (negotiation and drafting of contracts).
  • Advising a television group on the creation of a joint subsidiary with its two main competitors.*

* Denotes experience from previous firm.

Languages
  • French
  • English
Education
  • Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (Strasbourg) – Master 2 IT Law (2014)
  • University Paris 2 Panthéon Assas – Master 2 European business Law (2013)

Publications

  • Le droit européen de la concurrence peut-il freiner les ambitions de Liberty dans les sports mécaniques ?, Ecofoot, 10 July 2024
  • Multipropriété des clubs de football : quel cadre règlementaire pour appréhender cette tendance ?, droidusport.com et football-legal.com, 10 June 2024
  • Opérations de communication autour des évènements sportifs : Eviter l’ambush marketing, Les Echos, 6 June 2024
  • Règles spécifiques relatives à la communication sur les JO Paris 2024, Les Echos, 24 April 2024
  • Webinar : La Directive européenne sur l’indication des prix, Talon.One, 5 October 2023
  • Déséquilibre significatif : récentes illustrations du contrôle judiciaire de l’équilibre des contrats, Option Finance, 15 February 2023
  • Digital Guide: industry-specific analyses of artificial intelligence, LJA, 27 January 2023
  • Renforcement de la protection des consommateurs au travers de la Loi Pouvoir d'Achat, Les Echos, 9 November 2022
  • Le guide du Numérique analyse sectorielle de l’intelligence artificielle, LSA, 6 October 2022
  • Alerte DSA DMA, 14 July 2022
  • EGAlim 2 : renforcement de la transparence dans la chaîne agro-alimentaire et fort impact sur les négociations commerciales 2022, Option Finance, 5 November 2021
  • Brexit : le football français une nouvelle fois dans la tempête, Jurisportiva, 2 March 2021
  • Incidence de la nouvelle loi ASAP sur les relations commerciales fournisseurs/distributeurs, Village Justice, 2020
  • Le temps judiciaire pourrait jouer en faveur de Mediapro, Ecofoot, 2020
  • La décision du TAS fragilise le Fair-Play Financier, Ecofoot, 2020
  • Nike sanctionné par la Commission Européenne pour restriction des ventes transfrontières de maillots de football, Village Justice, 2019
  • Anticompetitive practices in the pharmaceutical sector: An overview of EU and national case law, Revue Concurrence, 2017
  • Gun Jumping : “Rien ne sert de courir, il faut partir à point”, LJA, 2016

Seminars

  • 2024, Speaker – AMOS Business School – Sports Law
  • 2021, Speaker – University of Grenoble Alpes – Competition law and intellectual property
  • 2017 - 2020, Speaker – ESC Clermont, Master International Business Development & Project Managers – International Contracts and Compliance

Prior Experience

  • French law firm – Contracts, Competition and Distribution department
  • International law firm (Paris and London offices) – Competition, Commercial and Compliance Department

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Association Frateli / Article 1 – Tutoring for law students
  • Avocat admitted as a Sports Representative to the Paris Bar

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