Our Competition Law Practice (EU and national) advises clients across the full spectrum of antitrust and regulatory matters, combining legal expertise with commercial insight to help businesses achieve their strategic objectives in fast-moving markets. Several of our senior lawyers have held positions within government and regulatory authorities, giving us a unique understanding of competition enforcers’ priorities and decision-making processes. This insider perspective allows us to anticipate issues, shape effective strategies, and deliver measurable value.

What We Deliver

We work closely with clients to ensure their business practices and commercial strategies comply with competition rules, helping to prevent disputes and minimise regulatory risk.

We advise on business strategies and key agreements, abuse of dominance and monopoly issues, licensing and distribution arrangements (including exclusivity, non-compete clauses, and parallel imports), as well as competition compliance and training.

We are at the forefront of advising clients on market investigations, providing strategic guidance on avoiding investigations, shaping commercial strategy throughout an investigation, evaluating prospects of success, and liaising with competition authorities.

Our practice also advises on mergers, joint ventures, and other complex transactions, including pre-merger strategy, merger notifications, investigations, remedies, settlements, and related litigation. We assist our clients in assessing clearance prospects, presenting transactions to competition authorities (or challenging competitors’ mergers), drafting merger and joint venture filings, and negotiating with authorities, including remedies or conditional clearances where required.

Our services include:

• Representation in competition-related litigation, ensuring clients’ interests are defended in Courts and Competition/Regulatory Authorities
• Reviewing key agreements and commercial arrangements
• Advising on abuse of dominance and monopoly issues
• Guidance on licensing, distribution, exclusivity, non-compete clauses, and parallel imports
• Strategic support during market and regulatory investigations, including liaising and negotiating with authorities
• Full-service advice on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other complex transactions, from risk assessment to clearance and remedies
• Advising on competition law implications in intellectual property, technology collaborations, licensing, and distribution

Key Areas of Focus

Our practice covers a broad range of competition law matters, including:

• General Antitrust Counseling
• Competition Litigation
• Competition Law Compliance
• Anticompetitive Agreements
• Abuse of Dominance
• Cartels
• Competition & Regulatory Investigations
• Mergers, Joint Ventures & Acquisitions
• Antitrust & Intellectual Property
• State Aid