COMPETITION

The business sector increasingly needs internal knowledge, advice and strong legal support regarding competition rules and the regulations that apply to it.

We have at our Clients' disposal, belonging to sectors as diverse as finance, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, transport, customs, or food distribution, our team of specialists in Competition Law, where we have a strong spirit of collaboration and multidisciplinary participation, allowing us to quickly create teams adapted to the specific needs of each Client.

We represent our Clients in proceedings before national competition authorities and national judicial bodies in several European countries or before the European Commission and European Union courts, in requests for annulment, precautionary measures and appeals in matters of competition, state aid, regulated sectors, internal market and taxation.

Our main areas of intervention are:

• advising on proceedings relating to possible cartels, abuses of dominant position and vertical restrictions
• advising on merger control procedures
• advising on state aid cases
• legal advice and counselling to prevent possible risks of infringements of competition rules
• advising on defence in administrative proceedings at national or European level
• advising on administrative offence proceedings at national or European level
• advising on litigation at national or European level
• advising on European Union litigation in matters of non-compliance by the State
• advising on company mergers
• advising on agreements between competitors and vertical co-operation between companies
• advising on abuse of dominant position cases
• advising on cases of abuse of economic dependence 
• advising on individual trade restrictive practice cases
  

MAIN AREAS OF INTERVENTION

• Restrictive Competition Practices
• Competition Compliance Programmes
• European Union Law and Litigation for Public Entities
• European Union Law and Litigation for Private Entities (Companies)
• Application of European Union Policies for Regional Development and Agriculture
• Legal Assistance in Support Financed from European Funds
• Infringement proceedings against the Portuguese State
• Appeals for annulment of European Commission decisions

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