Competition

  • Competition is an integral part of the business environment and ensuring a sound competition environment has become a major concern for both the European Commission and the national competition authority.
  • We have developed an extensive practice representing high profile merger and acquisitions transactions and complex joint ventures before the Romanian Competition Council, as well as the European Commission. We have advised clients on specific issues regarding antitrust investigations, application of the leniency policy, anti-competitive practices and obtained individual exemptions as well as comfort letters from the national competition authority.
  • In the field of State Aid we constantly provide legal assistance on state aid schemes, structural funds, state guarantees. We have successfully represented clients on state aid investigations opened by the European Commission on issues like state guarantees or application of the private investor principle.

The practice covers:

  • Ongoing competition compliance
  • Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures
  • Exclusive agreements and other forms of market arrangements
  • Unfair competition
  • Investigations and complaints
  • State aid