Mikaël Hervé

Vice President

Mikaël Hervé is a vice president in Charles River Associates’ European Competition Practice. He specialises in the application of econometric techniques to competition assessments with a focus on multi-sided platforms and innovative industries. His work covers mergers, antitrust investigations, and damages estimation.

Mikaël has deep knowledge in particular in digital and multi-sided markets (e.g. advising mass media companies, ad tech firms, specialised search engines, music companies, online ticketing platforms), in tech and innovative industries (e.g. cloud computing, IT services, connected cars) and in finance (e.g. Forex, Libor, CDS and bonds market manipulation cases).

He has experience in damage quantification testifying both on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants. He has assisted clients in front of the European Commission, national courts and authorities in the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Canada, South Korea, the US and Australia.

Mikaël holds a double degree as a Statistician-Economist from ENSAE Paris and HEC Paris Business School. He regularly speaks at conferences, publishes in competition journals, and participates in training programmes at universities or for professional practitioners.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    Google ordered to pay damages to French media company M6 due to practices in AdTech
    In March 2026 the Paris Commercial Court ruled that Google must pay €22.7 million in damages to the French media company M6. This judgment follows a French...
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  • 02
    Google ordered to pay damages to French media company Amaury L'Equipe due to practices in AdTech
    In March 2026 the Paris Commercial Court ruled that Google must pay €16.2 million in damages to the French media company Amaury L’Equipe. This judgment follows...
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  • 03
    ADLC finds no anticompetitive object in DFDS and P&O Ferries’s agreement
    On 11 September 2025, the Autorité de la concurrence (ADLC) – the French Competition Authority – published its decision regarding a mutual space chartering...
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