Natasha Tardif

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Natasha is a British and French national. She studied law in both the UK and France and has worked in law firms in New York, Paris, and London.

Natasha co-heads Reed Smith's Competition and European Law department and is managing partner of the Paris office. She is also a former member of the executive committee, the firm’s global management body.

Natasha focuses on litigation and advice with respect to issues in European and French competition law, distribution law and consumer law.

She notably assists global leaders as well as French clients before French and EU courts and authorities (European Commission, French Competition Authority).

Natasha’s areas of experience include anti-competitive practices (anti-competitive agreements and abuse of market power), antitrust investigations (dawn raids, requests for information), damages claims further to anti-competitive practices (private enforcement) as well as state aid. Natasha also has deep experience in merger control matters before the French Competition Authority and the European Commission, as well as before various competition authorities worldwide. She has also developed particular knowledge in litigation, in particular unfair competition cases, unfair trading rules (pratiques restrictives de concurrence) and regulatory (notably in the healthcare sector, chemicals, retail and e-commerce).

Natasha regularly obtains significant reductions of fines imposed by competition authorities for anti-competitive practices, as well as the annulment of investigation measures adopted during dawn raids. She intervenes in one of the rare cases of obstruction alleged by competition authorities, and obtained before the French Constitutional Council the unconstitutionality of a French legal provision sanctioning obstruction.

Natasha is also a lecturer at the Université de Paris “European business lawyer” Master’s programme, as well as at Paris II Assas, Paris-Dauphine, Seton Hall University School of Law and INSEAD. She also regularly publishes articles in relation to her business sectors of expertise, gives interviews and is often invited to speak at international conferences in the US, London, Brussels and Paris.

Credenciales

Université de Paris I Panthéon–Sorbonne, Maîtrise, Business law and International law
Brunel University

English
French
German
Persian

Premios y reconocimientos

Silver Prize (Plume d'Argent) in the “Economic and legal issues of tomorrow – Professional press” category, for her article "Digital Markets Act: a European headache for companies", published on Lesechos.fr
Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ in France for Competition / Antitrust Law, 2020-2024, Litigation, 2023-2024, and for Regulatory Practice, 2024
Winner of 2019 International Advisory Experts Award in Competition Law within France
Ranked in the EU, Competition and Distribution category of the Legal 500 EMEA, 2020: “The competition team is jointly led by Marc Lévy and Natasha Tardif, who are both ‘very skilled and easy to work with’. They have a good understanding of business needs”.
Ranked in the Healthcare and life sciences category of the Legal 500 EMEA - 2020

Interviews

February 2024 - Experts meeting – healthcare, La Santé continue de servir de valeur refuge pour les investisseurs, Magazine des Affaires
8 January 2024 - Quels sont les objectifs des cabinets en 2024 ? La Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires.
December 2023 - La gestion de carrière des avocats : défis et opportunités » La lettre des Juristes d’Affaires.
15 September 2023 - Fashion Briefing: Brands contend with compliance and data as legislation becomes reality, Glossy.com
11 September 2023 - Big Tech buckles under, Commercial Dispute Resolution
11 April 2023 - European regulators bare their teeth in battle against Big Tech dominance, Commercial Dispute Resolution
March 2023 - Experts meeting – healthcare, Résilient et performant, le secteur de la santé fait face toutefois à de multiples défis, Magazine des Affaires
16 March 2023 - How I made Managing Partner: “Be curious, Get Involved”; Law.com
February 2023 - EU to Ease Antitrust Rules in Fight Against Climate Change; Law.com
December 2022 - Reed Smith: montrer l’exemple; Juristes Associés
18 March 2022 - Les femmes en cabinet ; Juristes Associés
16 September 2021 - Experts meeting – healthcare, Le Magazine des Affaires
September 2021 - Algorithmic cartels, Expertises
29 July 2021 - Strategy: the remarkable resilience of business firms, Décideurs
19 July 2021 - Settle or Fight: Why Google bent on ad sales but is standing tough on neighboring rights, Legaltech news
5 July 2021 - Interview in relation to the Digital Markets Act, Lexinside
7 March 2021 - Natasha Tardif: a still singular profile among lawyers, Décideurs
21 July 2020 - French Competition Authority fines 12 Deli Meat Makers For 'Failed' Cartel, Law.com
16 June 2020 - Europe's Competition Watchdog Launches New Investigations Into Apple, Law.com
10 March 2020 - Interview with Natasha Tardif, co-managing partner of Reed Smith LLP in Paris, Journal Spécial des Sociétés
7 September 2017 - Experts meeting – healthcare, Le Magazine des Affaires

Academic engagements

University of Paris
Seton Hall University School of Law
University Paris-Dauphine
University Paris II Assas
INSEAD Business School

Notable quotes

April 2018 - Contribution to the Lamy healthcare sector on the distribution of medicinal products: contractual aspects

Sachin Kerur ranks again in Construction Week Power List

Industrias

Servicios

Equipos comerciales

Reed Smith IP team earns recognition in IAM Patent 1000

Credenciales

Premios y reconocimientos

Sachin Kerur ranks again in Construction Week Power List

Reed Smith IP team earns recognition in IAM Patent 1000

Educación

Idiomas