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Competition / Antitrust 

Competition and antitrust laws are constantly evolving – increasing in complexity (both at national and international levels) with private enforcement rising significantly in recent years. Similarly, regulation is ever-increasing and ever-more complex, whether adopted at the national or international level.

Our competition team is at the forefront of these developments and ideally placed to navigate the legal challenges that arise in this constantly evolving area. Merger control is critical to the success of any M&A transaction. Our team works with clients to devise their global merger control strategy. We combine commercial, legal, economic and often political considerations to maximise the chance of a successful outcome. We offer clients a one stop shop for handling merger control and foreign investment review filings: a single, central point of contact, as well as a consistently high level of quality.

We advise clients in a wide range of industries across the full spectrum of competition, regulation and trade-related issues. Some of the areas we typically provide advice to clients include:   
     

• • cartels and anti-competitive agreements;
  • abuse of dominance;
  • “dawn raids” when clients are being raided by the regulatory authorities;
  • competition complaints to regulatory authorities;
  • competition investigations, including leniency applications;
  • market studies and investigations;
  • competition litigation, including appealing regulatory decisions and follow-on claims;
  • merger control, including advising interested third parties and opposing mergers;
  • compliance programmes, training and audit;
  • joint ventures, strategic alliance and collaborative arrangements;
  • competition issues in distribution, licensing and franchising; and
  • regulated industry matters.
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• Read more: 
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• -  Commercial Court in Warsaw orders Google to stop favouring its own price-comparison service in search results (22/05/2024)
• -  New guidelines on penalties for competition law infringements issued by the Polish Antimonopoly Authority (UOKiK) (6/05/2024)
• -  Competition law in Poland: businesses should be aware about new guidelines on penalties for competition law infringements (25/04/2024)
• - Tips for clients expecting dawn raids in Poland (09/08/2023)
• - Competition law is not only a concern for big companies - what did change in Poland on 20 May 2023? (04/08/2023)
• - Benefits of hiring external counsel to handle the antimonopoly issues in Poland (28/07/2023)
• - W jaki sposób nowe rozporządzenie Komisji (UE) dotyczące porozumień wertykalnych wpłynie na zgodność działania przedsiębiorców z regułami konkurencji? (24/10/2022)
  - Prawo konkurencji dotyczy nie tylko dużych firm (23/06/2022)
• - Competition law is not only a concern for big companies (22/06/2022)
  - Foreign investors from outside the OECD will face restrictions in investing in Poland (23/06/2020)
  - Non-EU firms will face restrictions in purchasing more than 20 % of shares in Polish firms (08/06/2020)
  - A penalty of PLN 120 m imposed on VW Group Polska (16/01/2020)
  
  
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