Competition Law
Our clients are recognized key players from different sectors of the Ukrainian economy, top international brands and multinational corporations. In response to the needs of the corporate clients we have built the reputable team of country’s best lawyers specializing in competition and antitrust laws. We have profound experience in the field of protection against unfair competition, concerted practices, anti-dumping procedures and merger cases.
We provide our clients with the following legal support:
• Competition and Antitrust Litigation
The Firm has litigated every type of antitrust claims, including those alleging: price fixing, monopolization and abuse of dominant position, resale price fixing and other distribution restraints, anticompetitive mergers.
• Concerted Actions
The Firm advises on the matters related to the receipt of approval of concerted actions from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (ACU) to perform concerted actions. Our team of experts advises clients on domestic antitrust implications of agreements between competitors, as well as joint ventures, distribution and licensing agreements, development activities and strategic alliances, and represents clients in hearings of the cases on violation of the concerted actions before the ACU and the courts.
• Economic Concentration and Obtaining Permissions from ACU
Our attorneys, known as the country’s leading professionals, have been advising on the largest agreements in Ukrainian business. We provide legal support on such matters as economic concentration or obtaining approvals from ACU for concentration.
• Merger Control
The Firm has wide experience in merger control work for a notable domestic acquisitions arising from banking, finance, energy, telecom sectors. The Firm represents its clients in obtaining preliminary rulings and post-closing clearance of ACU.
• Protection Against Unfair Competition
The Firm supports clients in the matters referred to the abuse of dominance position and the risks associated with various business practices that may be challenged as anti-competitive acts. Our lawyers advise clients on appeal to the bodies of ACU on the matters of violation of the legislation on protection against unfair competition.
Our services in terms of this practice include:
• advising on the matters related to obtaining approval of concerted actions;
• drafting the concerted practice filings to apply to the ACU for approval;
• advice on obtaining approval from ACU to perform concerted actions;
• legal representation in hearing of the cases on violation of the concerted practice before the ACU and courts;
• structuring agreements, legal advisory services;
• drafting documents to appeal to the bodies of ACU on the matters of violation of the legislation on protection against unfair competition;
• drafting documents to obtain conclusions from the bodies of ACU on the matters of compliance of clients’ planned actions with legal provisions on unfair competition;
• representation clients in ACU, in appeal proceedings on violation of unfair competition legislation and also on obtaining conclusions from the bodies of ACU on the matters of compliance of clients’ planned actions with legal provisions on unfair competition;
• protecting clients’ rights and interests during investigations of unfair competition cases by antimonopoly authorities;
• appealing against actions or decisions of the bodies of ACU;
• advice on economic concentration regulations in Ukraine;
• structuring agreements to minimize risks associated with legislation restrictions of the economic concentration;
• drafting of documents, legal support in obtaining permissions for economic concentration or preliminary conclusions on planned transactions from ACU and its bodies;
• clients’ representation in ACU in litigation proceedings on violation of competition law in cases of economic concentration;
• appealing against actions or decisions of the bodies of ACU.
