Over the last few years, Evelyne’s team has regularly assisted major e-commerce platforms in commercial, consumer and competition law. In this respect, new rules are applicable to them since the entry into force of the EU Regulation and Guidelines of May 2022 governing vertical agreements and concerted practices. In commercial law, the support of these platforms concerns both their relations with their suppliers (btob) and their relations with their final customers who are consumers (btoc).

Increased globalisation leads to a reduction in trade barriers, which is currently being challenged by rising protectionism. Combined with borderless data traffic, this has profoundly changed the requirements made on worldwide commerce. Although the legal framework is becoming increasingly homogeneous in certain areas, new players entering the marketplace and their associated national legislative systems have made things much more complex. As a result, manufacturers, procurement departments, distributors and importers are all challenged by new national and international contractual structures.