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Dominique Heintz

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Dominique HEINTZ, attorney with the Paris Bar and with the Brussels Bar, was a founding partner of the HWH firm in 1988.

He practices principally in the fields of competition, distribution and industrial risks law on behalf of a clientele comprised of French and international, notably German, companies and major groups. German-speaking, Dominique Heintz has in fact developed special relationships over 30 years with German companies and their French subsidiaries. He advises his clients with respect to complex subjects related to restrictive competition practices, merger control, antitrust, complex commercial contracts, industrial risks and insurance law. He represents their interests by means of lobbying of public powers and also assists them in their lawsuits. He has recourse to alternative dispute settlement when strategically required: mediation and arbitration. Dominique Heintz is very involved in the representative institutions of the legal profession. He has also been one of France’s foreign trade advisers since 2012.

Practice areas
Education
  • Master’s degree in Private Law – Judicial Careers – from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
  • Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in General Private Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
  • Institut d’Etudes Judiciaires of the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
  • Institut de Droit Comparé of the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas
  • Paris Bar: 1985

 

 

 

Associations
  • Association des Avocats Conseils d’Entreprises (ACE) [Association of Company Lawyers]
  • Association du Droit de l’Arbitrage (ADA) [Association of Arbitration Law]
  • Association des Juristes Européens (AJE) [Association of European Lawyers]
  • Association Française des Etudes de la Concurrence (AFEC) [French Association of Competition Studies]
  • Association des Avocats Pratiquant le Droit de la Concurrence (APDC) [Association of Attorneys Practicing Competition Law]
  • Union internationale des Avocats (UIA) [International Union of Attorneys]

 

 

 

Publications
  • Droit de la distribution [Distribution Law] Sirey 2015 (with Marie Malaurie-Vignal), 3rd edition
  • Commentaire sur le droit français de la concurrence dans le commentaire allemand “Frankfurter Kommentar” with Michael Hertslet
  • Droit de la distribution [Distribution Law] Sirey 2018 (with Marie Malaurie-Vignal), 4th édition

 

 

 

Other activities
  • French Foreign Trade Advisor since 2012
  • Member of the National Council of the Bars, 2012-2014
  • Member of the Council of the Paris Bar Association, 2009-2011
  • Auditor of the IHEDN [Institute of Higher Studies in National Defense] 60th session, 2007-2008
  • Member of the Ad Hoc Commission of the Lawyer’s Club on the Reinforcement of the Fight Against International Corruption 2014/2015
  • President of the Ethical Committee of the Paris Bar, then Honorary President in 2014
  • Member of the board of directors of the Society of Friends of the German Historic Institute since 2010
  • Member of the Beirat [advisory board] of the French-German legal program between the University of Paris I Sorbonne and the University of Cologne since 2010
  • Member of the DANTE [business law and new technologies] research laboratory of Saint Quentin en Yvelines as a research associate in the field of market competition contracts

 

 

 

Distinctions
  • Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor (2009)
  • Knight of the German Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) (2015)
  • Honor distinction of the German Bar (Ehrenzeichen der Anwaltschaft) ( DAV 2016)

 

 

 

Languages
  • French
  • German
  • English

 

 

 

News
Competition, distribution, consumer affairs

Concurrence Distribution Consommation n°5/2021

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