Competition and EU law are complex and can have a broader impact on your business than you realise. That’s why our experts are here to help you identify and mitigate any hidden risks, offering practical advice to support your strategic objectives.

Our practice offers a full spectrum of legal services aimed at ensuring businesses’ compliance with competition law and providing the most effective strategy and defense during the investigations launched by the Romanian Competition Council.

Here are some of the services we provide assistance with:

Legal support during investigations by the Romanian Competition Council, including assistance during raids, risk assessment, response strategies to authority requests, leniency applications, defense preparation, objections submission, representation during hearings, challenging sanctioning decisions in court, and assistance during litigation proceedings.

Legal advice for distribution, online sales, and vertical restrictions.

Legal advice for cartels, damages claims, and other cooperation agreements, including R&D, production, or joint purchasing agreements.

Consultation on information exchange in both vertical and horizontal arrangements, including hub & spoke practices.

Creating effective competition compliance programs, including risk assessment, tailored training, internal documents, monitoring, and audit activities.

Legal advice for conducting a competition-compliant business in imperfect markets, such as oligopolistic or monopolistic markets, or related to state interventionism in specific economic sectors.

Assistance in structuring competition-compliant transactions and obtaining competition clearance for mergers and foreign direct investments (FDIs).

Unfair competition.

Whatever your challenge might be, we’re here to help you navigate through.