Economic Law

Sahra Hagani

Partner

Sahra Hagani is a partner at Squadra Avocats, where she leads the Economic Law Department.

She handles all legal issues related to distribution law, restrictive competition practices, contract law, and consumer law.

She assists French and international companies in the deployment of their commercial activities, their contractual policies, and market strategy, both in an advisory capacity and in litigation.

Sahra advises her clients on the drafting and negotiation of contracts (distribution, industrial, subcontracting, etc.,), the establishment and protection of physical and digital distribution networks, the audit and optimisation of companies’ commercial and pricing policies, and the organisation and securing of commercial relations with consumers.

Before joining Squadra Avocats, Sahra practiced law at Fidal and Grant Thornton Société d’Avocats.

Areas of Expertise

  • Distribution law
  • Competition law
  • Restrictive competition law
  • Pricing practices law
  • Contract law
  • Consumer law
  • Audit and litigation of payment terms

Business Sectors

  • Industry
  • Mass Distribution – Retail
  • E-commerce
  • Publishing and Media
  • Tourism

Education

  • Master of Law (DEA) Business Law, Toulouse School of Law

Languages

  • French
  • English

Daniel Fasquelle

Of Counsel

Daniel Fasquelle is a Law Professor. He conducted his doctor’s thesis in Private Law at Panthéon-Assas University in Paris, on European and American competition law. He is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Law of the Littoral-Côte-d’Opale University. A very active Member of the French Parliament, he was Vice-Chairman of the Commission for Economic Affairs of the National Assembly for a decade.

Daniel is notably the author of a report entitled “Structuring digital platforms: strengthening competition law, creating a regulatory law” with Valéria Faure-Muntian, submitted in May 2020 to the French National Assembly.

He was also in charge of the Common Market Dictionary for several years and is often in Brussels.

As Mayor of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, Daniel knows perfectly well the problems encountered by local authorities.

His expertise both of the law and of the relevant institutions places Daniel in a naturally privileged position to advise businesses in competition, distribution and European matters of all kinds.

 

Awards

  • “Highly Recommended” in Innovation, Technologies & Télécoms – Digital Platforms Law and Applications, Leaders League 2025
  • Daniel Fasquelle’s Thesis received the International League of Competition Law Award in Berlin in 1995.

 

Daniel Fasquelle has frequently been published in the Concurrences law review since its creation in 2004, in particular on all matters relating to distribution and digital issues.
For several years, he was in charge of the Common Market Dictionary (GLN Editions) which later became the Joly Communautaire.
For several years, he led the Laboratory for Legal Research (LARJ).
He is a board member of the French Competition Association (AFEC – Association Française d’Etude de la Concurrence).
As a Member of the French Parliament, Daniel has authored numerous reports, including a report “on the relationship between major principals and subcontractors in the industrial sectors” co-authored with Denis Sommer in June 2019 and a report entitled “Structuring digital platforms: strengthening competition law, creating a regulatory law” co-authored with Valéria Faure-Muntian that was presented in May 2020

Skills 

  • Competition law
  • Distribution law
  • European law
  • Consumer law

Education

  • Agrégé of Law Faculties (private law and criminal sciences)
  • Doctor of Laws (Thesis in comparative competition law)
  • Bachelor of Laws (Licence),
  • Maîtrise and Master Degree (DEA) in European Law, Master Degree (DEA) in Criminal Law (Paris II)
  • Certificate of aptitude for the profession of Avocat (CAPA)
  • Certificate in Anglo-American legal terminology and translation (Institute of comparative law, Paris)

Languages

  • French
  • English

 

About

In a constantly changing economic and regulatory environment, our Economic Law team supports you in securing your commercial relationships by placing the law at the heart of your strategic decisions. It acts as a business partner, providing you with recognised technical expertise and a pragmatic approach designed to inform decision making, promote value creation and anticipated the risks inherent in the operation and development of your business.

Our team assists with all matters relating to competition law, distribution law, contract law, and consumer law. It assists you in defining and implementing your distribution schemes, optimising and securing supplier-distributer relations, securing commercial relationships with consumers, drafting and negotiating contracts, and setting up and restructuring your contractual policies.

The team also has recognised expertise in analysing, preventing and managing competitive risks and practices that restrict competition, and in audits and litigation relating to compliance with payment deadlines. It represents its clients’ interest before administrative authorities, competition authorities, and national commercial courts.

Areas of Expertise

Distribution law
Competition law
Restrictive competition practices law
Pricing practices law
Contract law
Consumer law
Product regulations
Audit and litigation regarding payment terms

Business Sectors

Industry
Mass Distribution – Retail
E-commerce
Publishing and Media
Tourism