Emmanuel Glaser

Emmanuel Glaser is a partner at Fréget Glaser & Associés, a Paris practice specialising in competition law, regulation and public law. At the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, the firm was named Public Law Firm of the Year in France, an award that recognises the depth of its public-law expertise and its distinctive capacity to bring a rigorous legal perspective to questions of economic policy.

Mr Glaser brings to the firm an exceptional grounding in French public law, drawn from a career spent at the highest levels of the state. He served for fourteen years as a member of the Conseil d'État, France's supreme administrative court, including seven years as commissaire du gouvernement, and sat as a judge in interim-relief proceedings and as a member of the Public Works Section. He subsequently acted as adviser for legal and European affairs to the Secretary General for National Defence, and then as deputy director of public, European and international law within the legal affairs directorate of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance. This trajectory has given him an unusually complete command of administrative, constitutional and regulatory law as it operates in practice.

Fréget Glaser & Associés was formed in early 2021, when Mr Glaser and Sandrine Perrotet joined Olivier Fréget's established competition practice together with their team. He co-directs the public law practice, and the combined firm positions itself as a house able to read the legal dimension of economic-policy questions with particular acuity. Its philosophy is captured in the ideas of performance through law and competition through merit, and it describes its way of working as collaborative and co-extensive with its clients, building focused teams around each project and, where appropriate, questioning the existing legal framework rather than accepting it as fixed.

Public law sits naturally alongside the firm's competition and regulatory work, and it is in the interplay of these disciplines that Mr Glaser's contribution is most valuable. Public law in France governs the relationship between the state, its administrative bodies and the businesses and individuals they regulate, spanning public procurement, regulatory decisions, administrative litigation and the constitutional and European rules that constrain public action. A lawyer who has sat inside the Conseil d'État and advised government departments understands not only the letter of these rules but the reasoning and institutional logic behind them, and is therefore well placed to anticipate how public authorities and courts will approach a given dispute.

Alongside his practice, Mr Glaser maintains an active academic and scholarly profile. He is an associate professor at the University of Paris-Est Créteil, lectures at Sciences Po Paris, and co-edits the competition section of the Actualité juridique Droit administratif. This teaching and editorial work keeps him at the centre of doctrinal debate in French administrative and competition law, and reinforces the intellectual rigour that clients associate with the firm. The practice has also drawn recognition within the French legal market, including from Best Lawyers and The Legal 500.

Fréget Glaser & Associés advises clients who face the most demanding intersections of regulation, competition and public authority, and Mr Glaser's public-law expertise is central to that offering. The firm's approach favours intellectual humility, close collaboration and a willingness to reconsider settled assumptions where the interests of the client require it. For companies, institutions and public bodies navigating regulatory decisions, administrative litigation or the broader legal terrain of economic policy in France, the practice offers a rare combination of scholarly depth and practical insight, and the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 recognition underscores its standing as a leading public law firm in the country.