Vogel & Vogel

EU, Competition & Distribution

Founding Partner specialized in Economic Law (French and European Competition, Distribution and Consumer Law). Joseph Vogel advises undertakings in the field of Economic law at both the European and French levels. Joseph Vogel handles actions based on article 101 or 102 of the Treaty, merger notifications to the Merger Task Force, competition cases before the Commission, the General Court of the European Union and the Court of Justice of the European Union and advises on all issues linked to the validity and performance of exclusive distribution agreements, franchise or agency contracts including where necessary subsequent litigation.

Valedictorian of the Ecole de Formation des Avocats in 1985 (Professional Legal Training College); Admitted to the Paris bar in 1985, and to the New York bar in 1990; Banque Paribas (1984-85) and Tomasi & Partners (1985). Creation of the firm Vogel & Vogel with his brother, Louis Vogel (1990).

French – English – German.

Member of the American Bar Association; Member of the Franco-German Lawyers Association; Member of the Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Member of Deutscher Anwaltverein; Member of the Union of European Lawyers (UEL); Member of the Collège de droit économique (College of Economic Law); Member of the Association française d'étude de la concurrence (AFEC) (French Association for Competition Studies); Member of the board of directors of the Association des avocats pratiquant le droit de la concurrence (Association of Lawyers Practicing Competition Law).

Masters (D.E.A) in business law (1983); Masters-level diploma in accounting (1983); Graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) (1982); Graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris (1980).

Joseph Vogel enjoys running, reading geopolitical strategy and comic books and detective novels, and watching American western films in his spare time.