Competition Law

About

Provided by Bristows LLP

We are experts in both national and EU competition law, with a long track record of representing clients before the competition authorities and courts in Brussels, Luxembourg and the UK.

We provide support to clients across the board, from devising bespoke compliance systems that are appropriate to each client, to advising on the competition law risks arising from commercial strategies or agreements. 

Our deep sector knowledge of the life sciences and technology spaces gives us an edge, and we apply this experience and expertise to help clients prepare for the markets and legal challenges of the future.  

Our clients instruct us to advise them on the competition risks arising out of issues as diverse as supply and distribution agreements, complex joint venture or other horizontal cooperation arrangements, in-licences and out licences of technology, abuse of dominance and antitrust investigations.

We also assist our clients when they face individual investigations, often commenced by unannounced inspections or dawn raids. 

Our competition litigation team is truly unusual, being made up of lawyers who have both an in-depth knowledge of competition law and extensive experience of litigation. For example, a group of specialists within the Patent Litigation group works seamlessly with the Competition Law group to provide assistance in SEP/FRAND disputes. Our clients (patentees, implementers or patent pools) trust the team to really ‘get’ the issues in this field.