In conditions of market-oriented economy and competitive environment the antitrust and healthy competition rules become more and more important. Effective competitive legislation not only prevents the consequences of a breach of the competition rules but it can be a forceful weapon in the event that a company’s ability to penetrate a market is being unfairly restricted as a result of the activities of individual companies. Our competition lawyers’ practice enjoys an excellent reputation with the officials of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine.
Our competition law practice experience and regular representation includes:
- Companies’ due diligence
- Advising companies on the compatibility of agreements or commercial actions with national competition laws including but not limited the issues of:
- market research
- mergers and acquisitions
- government aid granting
- joint ventures’ foundation and activities
- defending companies accused of breaching the competition rules
- harmonization of the national legislation with the WTO and EU standards, etc.
- Drafting of documents to obtain approvals of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine bodies for:
- economic concentration
- concerted practice
- Representation of interests in:
- bodies of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine in cases on obtaining of authorization for economic concentration and concerted practice, and in cases on breaching of the economic competition laws (abuse of dominant position, misreporting, taking of anticompetitive concerted actions etc.)
- courts in cases with the participation of the bodies of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine
- other governmental authorities
- Legal support of transactions involving the application of economic competition laws.
