Competition/European Law

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Provided by Abreu Advogados

Our team has extensive experience, rated, in fact, as one of the most experienced at the technical and academic level, in advisory services in the area of competition, regulation and European law.

The services we provide:

Competition

• Assessment and prevention of restrictive agreements, concerted practices and decisions of association of undertakings.
• Advising on mergers, acquisitions and creation of joint ventures, within merger control files before the Competition Authority and the European Commission.
• Advice and representation before the Competition Authority and the European Union and courts, in matters concerning sector inquiries and cartel related procedures, including leniency applications.
• Review of distribution, licensing and cooperation agreements, pricing policy as well as guidelines adopted by industrial or commercial associations of undertakings.
• Development of compliance programmes.
• Assessment, advice and representation of Clients in respect of of State Aid matters.

European Union

• Advising on the internal market rules – free movement of goods, services, capital and people.
• Advising in the context of the European Union sector policies (policies on agriculture, information society and media, economy and finance, international industry and trade) and harmonization of national legislation.
• Within the scope of European Union litigation, representing Clients before the European Courts.