Expertise

Our expertise has been consolidated through a creative and thorough approach in providing specialized, tailored advice in all areas of competition law. Our advice covers all aspects of the competition field, including:

Investigations

We provide dawn raid assistance, post-dawn raid risk assessment and recommendations
We prepare submissions in reply to the information and document request from the Competition Council during the investigation
We advise on leniency applications
We advise on commitments applications
We prepare the defense strategy
We prepare the statements of defense in response to the statement of objections issued by the investigation team
We assist and represent the clients during the hearings before the Competition Council Plenum
We challenge in court the Competition Council’s decisions

General advice on transaction structuring and day-to-day business conduct

We recommend the most suitable transaction structure based on the clients’ interests and in compliance with the competition law provisions
We assess the compatibility of the clients’ day-to-day business conduct with the competition law provisions

Specialized competition trainings

We provide training with respect to the Romanian and EC competition rules, including on dawn raids

Competition audits

We highlight the competition risks with respect to the clients’ business practices and contracts
We provide recommendations with respect to mitigating the identified risks and making the amendments necessary for compliance with the competition law requirements

Merger clearance

We assess whether notification of an economic concentration is necessary
We prepare and file economic concentrations notification
We assist in obtaining merger clearance

State aid

We establish whether state aid can be provided (under existing state aid schemes / by declaring compatible an ad hoc state aid)
We identify the best course of action when suspecting that a competitor was the beneficiary of illegal state aid

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