Competition/Antitrust

Baker McKenzie's wealth of experience in this area verify its status as the world’s largest antitrust practice. This year Baker McKenzie has been named as a Top 5 Global Elite firm by Global Competition Review, the most technical and comprehensive directory for competition law around the world.

Our Ukrainian office is best known for:

• Being the first choice of many leading multinational public and private companies for merger control work in Ukraine. In the past year, we have assisted with a number of merger control proceedings;

• Having significant experience in advising clients from various industries on the implications of various vertical arrangements with Ukrainian customers, as well as investigations conducted by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine;

• Having extensive experience in dealing with various types of antitrust violations, including abuse of dominance, anticompetitive concerted actions, violations relating to failure to clear notifiable transactions with the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine, and in representing its clients before the AMCU in various infringement cases;

• Being the pioneers of the antitrust compliance program, we are regularly hired by multinational and local companies to roll out competition compliance programs for their offices in Ukraine, as well as to conduct internal compliance investigations.