Nour el-Houda Bey

Nour Bey is a Legal Consultant in the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group in the firm's Brussels office. She is active in all areas of EU competition and regulatory law. 

Areas of Practice

Nour's practice areas include EU and French competition law as well as EU regulatory matters. She focused on State aid matters in several sectors such as air and rail transport, energy, insurance and basic industries. She is also involved in EU litigation cases before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She also has significant experience in data protection (GDPR) compliance, whistleblowing, and medical regulation.

Before joining Sheppard Mullin, she was an intern in the antitrust groups of other law firms in Paris and Tunis. She has also experience in legal publishing and with the United Nations (International Hydrological Programme - IHP of UNESCO in Paris).

Experience

• Assistance in State aid notification and issues in the context of the Covid-19 crisis (State aid recapitalisation measures).
• Assistance in State aid matters in the energy sector.
• Advice on the application of the EU Whistleblowing Directive and compliance of corporate codes of conduct.
• Advice on European medical regulation.
• Contribution to the drafting of written pleadings before the EU courts in various cases.

Articles

• Temporary Crisis Framework: The European Commission adopts new Temporary Crisis Framework to support the economy in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Concurrences N° 2-2022, Authored with Jacques Derenne, pp. 153-155
• Interested party: The Court of Justice of the European Union holds that the competition report alone is not sufficient to establish that an undertaking is actually individually concerned by the contested decision or that it suffers a substantial adverse effect giving it a remedy (Lufthansa), Concurrences N° 2-2022, Authored with Jacques Derenne, pp. 155-156
• Distortion of competition: The Court of Justice of the European Union rejects an appeal against judgments partially annulling a decision of the European Commission and clarifies the assessment of the distortion of competition (Scandlines Danmark/Scandlines Deutschland), Concurrences N° 1-2022, Authored with Jacques Derenne, pp. 137-139