As a business, you can't avoid competition laws and their prohibitions. But with our help, you can work around them and even turn them to your advantage.
Competition laws, both nationally and at the Community level, can occasionally help you. More often however, they can hurt you - in which case we'll shield you against the regulatory agencies empowered with competition enforcement.
We specialise in this fast changing field and we work hard at staying ahead of our competition by being better informed and responding faster to competition questions where timing is critical.
Our clients range from small and medium-sized enterprises with questions about market access and supply contracts to major City players with merger and acquisition issues of international significance. We work with many different industry sectors, such as high street retailing, e-commerce, luxury branding, pharmaceuticals, publishing and industrial chemicals.
We provide a full range of services, including M&A structuring, selective and exclusive distribution contracts, defence against price-fixing allegations and advice on setting up the internal competition compliance programmes required by the regulators.
More and more, our clients have issues that involve not only European-related competition laws but also US anti-trust laws. As part of a team of international experts, we can handle this.