With a solid litigation, commercial and general advisory background, our team is able to advise on a broad range of competition law matters from merger control regimes, to counselling on cartel investigations, to cross-border transactions (mergers, joint ventures) and to defending our clients from antitrust complaints.
Areas of Expertise
Merger Control
Our competition law team regularly advises major international clients on merger control notification requirements particularly those stemming from cross border transactions. We are experienced in assessing complex transactions and advising whether the proposed deals would trigger notification requirements before each national competition authority.
Compliance and Counselling
We have expertise in devising optimal training and counselling programs tailor-made to each client’s needs. We believe that prevention is key and aim to devise programs and training that would address the commonly raised issues on antitrust violations and the means to prevent them.
We have delivered several training programs to major international clients to ensure their legal and commercial teams are well versed in achieving day-to-day competition law compliance.
Dominance and Unilateral Market Conduct
The conduct and practice of companies with high market power are regularly scrutinized by their competitors and national competition authorities. Without an adequate strategy in place, these companies could face allegations of abuse of dominant position, subjecting them to high penalties and sanctions.
We regularly advise clients on the main conducts and practices that would trigger allegations of market abuse such as discriminatory pricing, discrimination between one customer over another in terms of supply; the refusal to supply and discriminatory discounts and rebate.
General Advisory for Agreements and Conduct with other Parties
We advise on the antitrust/competition implications arising out of horizontal and vertical agreements. Our advice includes the review of commercial agreements between competitors, suppliers, distributors, customers and others. We advise clients on the rules governing exchange of information between competitors and have prepared guidelines outlining the do’s and don’ts between competitors.