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EU and competition law
Our corporate lawyers have more than 25 years experience advising on all aspects of competition law. Our involvement includes complex merger work and competition law investigations by the EU, the Office of Fair Trading and other national authorities.
We will guide you through this difficult area of law with practical advice that helps achieve your commercial objectives.
With close contacts with other firms throughout Europe, the US, Australia and Asia – via LawExchange International – corporate lawyers at Hewitsons can help with the international aspects too.
Our main areas of work of our corporate lawyers include:
- Advising on merger control (including obtaining regulatory clearances)
- Advising on the application of competition law to all kinds of business transactions (including franchising, licensing and distribution arrangements)
- Advising on how to structure effective distribution, pricing and other business arrangements which comply with the competition rules
- Delivering bespoke compliance programmes for companies of all sizes
- Defending investigations by national competition authorities and the European Commission, assisting in leniency applications and in appeals to the Competition Appeals Tribunal
- Providing training and guidance on the management of “dawn raids” by the competition authorities
- Advising on the merits of private enforcement as well as claims for compensation for breaches of competition law
On a broader EU front, we advise on state aid, parallel imports, public procurement and subject-specific regulatory issues and associated lobbying.