Our team renders a full spectrum of legal services aimed to ensure the businesses compliance with competition law as well as to provide the most effective strategy and defense during the investigations launched by the Romanian Competition Council
Assistance and representation during all phases of the investigations conducted by the Romanian Competition Council including dawn raid assistance, post-raid risk assessment, coherent and efficient response strategies to the competition authority’s requests, potential leniency applications or commitments, preparing the defense and submitting objections to the investigation final report, representation during the hearings, challenging in court the sanctioning decision and assistance during the litigation proceedings
Legal advice for any distribution-related issue, online sales and vertical restrictions
Legal advice for any cartel-related issue, damages claims or to any other horizontal cooperation agreements including R&D, production or joint purchasing agreements
Consultancy related to the exchange of information both in vertical and horizontal arrangements, including hub & spoke practices
Effective competition compliance programs, including risk assessment, custom-tailored trainings and internal documents, monitoring and audit activities
Legal advice for conducting a competition compliant business on imperfect markets such as oligopolistic or monopolistic markets or consultancy related to the state interventionism in particular economic sectors
Assistance for structuring competition compliant transactions and also for obtaining the competition clearance in case of mergers and foreign direct investments (FDIs)