Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites & Arntsen is widely recognized as one of the preeminent law firms in Argentina. Established in 1991, the Firm has more than 120 lawyers. Headquartered in Buenos Aires, with an international office in New York, the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to international and local companies and financial and investment institutions doing business in Argentina and Latin America.

The Firm advises many of the largest Argentine and international corporations and financial and investment institutions, and has played a significant role in many of the most complex and landmark transactions of the last decades in Argentina.

Especially, the Firm has an active and established Antitrust practice group devoted to advising and representing domestic and international clients in connection with:

• general advice on competition and antitrust regulations in Argentina;
• antitrust filings and proceedings with the Argentine competent antitrust regulators (including the Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia and the Secretaría de Comercio);
• the obtaining of regulatory clearance and approvals;
• litigation related to competition and antitrust matters; and
• advice and representation related to anti-competitive behaviors.

The firm is a market leader in Argentina as evidenced by its rankings in recognized research publications. Among other awards, the firm was the first Latin American law firm to be honored with the “Latin America Law Firm of the Year Award” by Chambers and Partners.

www.pagbam.com.ar

Ashurst is a leading global law firm with a rich history spanning almost 200 years. The firm currently has 27 offices in 16 countries and a number of referral relationships that offers the reach and insight of a global network, combined with the knowledge and understanding of local markets.

In Australia and across Asia, Ashurst's competition practice continues as a leader in the market. The Australian practice is dynamic and highly capable across the full suite of competition law issues, including domestic and cross-border merger clearances, cartel conduct, infrastructure access issues, consumer protection, market investigations and market studies, misuse of market power and other competition law prohibitions, and appeals and litigation. In addition to undertaking pre-eminent merger clearance matters across all major Australian commercial centres and around the Asia-Pacific region, the firm is proud to be increasingly recognised for its success in closing large, confidential investigations, and the receipt of multiple mandates in relation to high profile market inquiries.

The team's loyal clients include both international and pre-eminent Australian businesses across many industries including oil and gas, energy, technology and digital media, financial services, infrastructure and building products, food and consumer products and agriculture.

www.ashurst.com/en/expertise/practices/competition-and-antitrust/

CMS is one of the leading law firms in Austria with more than 80 lawyers at your service. The firm was founded in 1970 in Vienna and looks back on 50 years of experience.

The competition law expertise at CMS in Austria stretches back more than 20 years. With 9 lawyers CMS has one of the largest competition law teams in Austria. The team focuses not only on problem solving but also on how you can avoid problems in the first place, having extensive experience in helping clients navigate difficult paths so that they can focus on their business. The firm has in-depth knowledge of competition rules in Austria, on an EU-level as well as abroad involving various sectors and markets.

CMS Austria is part of the competition practice group of the CMS network, which offers the most widespread pan-European coverage and combines globally more than 180 competition lawyers based in 34 countries. The CMS competition group always follows the aim to provide clients with pragmatic solutions, not merely listing the risks. What sets the CMS competition lawyers apart is the thorough understanding of economic interests, the focus on specific industries, and years of experience acquired in numerous proceedings before European and Austrian competition authorities and courts.

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Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is a leading law firm in Belarus. Established in 1993 the firm provides the full range of legal services to domestic and foreign businesses, international organizations and financial institutions across the CIS.

The history of the Belarusian office includes legal activity under the names BelJurbureau (2003 – 2008) and Magisters (2008 – 2011). In 2011 Magisters merged with the Russian law firm Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners creating the largest law firm in the whole of the CIS.

The lawyers of the firm have agreed with the antitrust authorities of Belarus more than a hundred mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and restructuring of companies, including those related to investments in strategic industries.

The firm has an active and established antitrust practice group devoted to advising and representing domestic and international clients in connection with:

• general advice on competition and antitrust regulations in Belarus;
• coordination of transactions within the framework of control over economic concentration;
• protection of clients' interests in administrative proceedings and in court related to competition and antitrust matters;
• development of a market behavior strategy and the structuring of the company's business taking into account the requirements of antitrust laws; and
• advice and representation related to anti-competitive behaviours.

The firm is a market leader in Belarus as evidenced by its rankings in recognized research publications such as Chambers and Partners, IFLR1000, Legal500. The firm also has offices in Russia and Ukraine and associated offices in the UK, the USA and Cyprus.

http://epap.by/eng/pages/minsk

Pinheiro Neto Advogados has practiced in the competition area since the early 1960’s, when administrative proceedings dealing with anticompetitive practices were still incipient in Brazil. Effective from the 1990’s, during the economic opening process and upon enactment of new laws, which provided for a better description of practices in restraint of trade and defined them as crime, the firm has gained reputation in the practice of this area of law.

With unparalleled experience at domestic and international levels, the competition practice of Pinheiro Neto Advogados offers counsel in virtually every aspect of competition law, drawing on the support of other practice areas of the firm and on the collaboration of renowned economists and technical experts, if necessary. The competition practice covers:

• Advice and counseling on development of commercial and corporate structures;
• Notification to the competition authorities and regulatory agencies (as the case may be) of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, contracts or other transactions involving market dominance or consolidation of control, carried out in Brazil or abroad, but producing effects in Brazil;
• Counsel, in partnership with foreign law firms, to Brazilian companies involved in cross-border transactions;
• Negotiation and review of performance commitments executed in merger control proceedings;
• Advice to clients as interested party in third-party notifications (oppositions and other procedures);
• Drafting of leniency proposals;
• Defense in anticompetitive practice investigations such as cartels (domestic and international) and abuse of dominant position;
• Negotiation of alternative solutions or cease-and-desist commitments in lieu of sentencing on practices in restraint of trade;
• Representation in measures relating to mergers and in administrative proceedings before the Judiciary;
• Filing of lawsuits and defense of clients in suits for damages, public and private, as a result of anticompetitive practices;
• Due diligence investigations on compliance matters and development of compliance training programs.

Chambers Latin America 2019 made these comments in relation to the team’s “Strengths”: One impressed client describes the department as "the dream team" and enthuses: "They are not only knowledgeable of the area, but also experienced. Their great reputation within the market and ability to deal with very sensitive matters inspire confidence in the client." Another source underlines: "Pinheiro Neto's team is composed of the most intelligent lawyers in Brazil, and as a multidisciplinary group they are a one-stop solution provider."

www.pinheironeto.com.br

R&T Sok & Heng Law Office is one of Cambodia’s most highly regarded full service law firms. The firm provides incisive, high quality legal services to domestic and international clients, on their most complex and challenging local and cross-border transactions, as well as the firm’s day-to-day operations.

The firm advises clients in a wide range of practice areas, across the corporate and commercial spectrum, and the firm has particular expertise in a number of important industry sectors, including banking & finance, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, construction & projects, foreign investment approvals, technology, intellectual property, media & telecommunications and energy & resources.

https://kh.rajahtannasia.com/

Stikeman Elliott is one of Canada’s leading business law firms and is recognized for top tier services in each of the firm’s core practice areas. The firm has 460 lawyers including many of Canada’s most prominent business practitioners and litigators, and the firm’s depth across practice areas enables clients to benefit from efficient, expert teams of lawyers at all levels.

The firm’s Competition & Foreign Investment Group provides sophisticated, pragmatic advice on major national and international transactions, as well as day-to-day compliance across all industries including manufacturing, financial services, insurance, technology, infrastructure, retail, agribusiness and communications.

Stikeman Elliott is one of the most active transactional law firms in Canada, with a deep understanding of the competitive dynamics of Canada’s major industrial and commercial sectors. As such, the firm effectively evaluates and structures transactions to manage the risk of regulatory intervention by the Commissioner of Competition and other governmental agencies. The firm has acted on the most noteworthy foreign investment transactions in recent years, representing both Canadian targets and foreign purchasers. Clients also rely on the firm’s unique ability to coordinate the increasingly important public relations and government relations aspects of competition and foreign investment review.

Stikeman Elliott’s competition litigation practice is a recognized market leader, with top ranked counsel handling the full spectrum of client issues, from cartel investigations, prosecutions and resolutions, to immunity and leniency applications, to contested mergers and other civilly reviewable matters before the Competition Tribunal, to defence of class actions and other lawsuits alleging competition law violations and economic torts. The team's reputation for vigorous advocacy and strategic focus on clients’ interests, in the courtroom and at the negotiating table, serves the clients exceedingly well as they face the Competition Bureau, Public Prosecution Service of Canada, and class action plaintiffs.

Accolades

• Chambers Canada 2021 for Competition/Antitrust
• Chambers Global 2020 for Competition/Antitrust
• Global Competition Review's GCR 100 2021 as an "Elite firm" in Competition
• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2020 for Competition
• Deal of the Year and Energy & Industrials Deal of the Year – The Deal Awards 2020
• The 2021 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for Competition & Foreign Investment
• Merger control matter of the year – Europe – Global Competition Review Awards, 2019
• Merger control matter of the year – Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa – Global Competition Review Awards, 2019
• Matter of the year – Global Competition Review Awards, 2019
• Competition Litigation Firm of the Year - Benchmark Canada Awards 2019
• Canada M&A Law Firm of the Year and Canada M&A Deal of the Year – 2019 Americas M&A Atlas Awards

www.stikeman.com

Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría (PPU) is the first major Ibero-American law firm. The firm is born from a merger between the Chilean Philippi, Yrarrázaval, Pulido & Brunner, Colombian Prietocarrizosa, and the two Peruvian firms Ferrero Abogados and Delmar Ugarte. The prestigious Spanish and Portuguese firm Uría Menéndez participates in the new firm since its inception in 2015.

The firm provides an efficient response to the new demands for professional services arising from the growing and solid Chilean economy, coupled with the increasing interest of European, Asian and North American companies in the country.

The experience acquired after many years of practicing law, the technical and professional quality of its lawyers and the geographical reach through its network of offices, have turned PPU into the reference firm in Chile.

The Firm is strongly committed to internal/external regulatory compliance and to the ethical standards that govern the ethics of the profession. PPU has a Division of Ethics and Conflicts of Interest.

PPU’s competition law practice is one of the most recognized and prestigious within Chilean market. Its international background, strong networks abroad and the excellent client service are broadly appreciate by client and peers. The most well-known rankings and legal directories recognize PPU competition team as a top tier practice. The practice and its members are ranked in Who’s Who Legal & Global Competition Review's yearly publication, Chambers and Partners Latin America, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Leaders League, Leading Lawyers and IFLR 1000.

www.ppulegal.com

Gaopeng & Partners is a leading Chinese law firm based in Beijing, serving Chinese and international clients on all aspects of Chinese law and international business law. Gaopeng currently has six associated offices in Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Hang Zhou, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Huangshan and Shenzhen, and Gaopeng has 100 partners and 300 lawyers in total.

Gaopeng provides full range of legal services, including Corporate, M&A, Competition, Japanese practices, Securities, Real Estate, Intellectual Property Rights, International Trade Law and Dispute Settlement. Gaopeng’s industry knowledge is very broad and includes manufacturing, agriculture, distribution, banking, media, entertainment and sport, tobacco and infrastructure.

Gaopeng’s antitrust team regularly handles merger fillings to the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), and the team which includes former government officials has been responsible for obtaining clearance in many high-profile transactions. Gaopeng also frequently advises clients on cartel and abuse matters.

Gaopeng is highly recommended by Chambers and whoswholegal, where Jiang Liyong is highlighted as Global Leader in competition/antitrust matters.

www.gaopenglaw.com

Esguerra Asesores Jurídicos is a market-leading firm, held in high esteem due to its experience and the reputation of its partners in the professional and academic sphere in each of their respective fields. This has led the partners to play an active role as frequently consulted experts in – or even direct drafters of – the specific legal regulations or reforms of their particular field. The firm works within the strictest ethics parameters and the highest professional standards. It possesses the experience, knowledge, infrastructure and technology needed to provide reliable legal counsel to its clients. Additionally, and with the help of the alliances it has developed with law firms in other parts of the world, the firm is prepared to offer its services on international affairs. The firm is both multidisciplinary and specialized, with proven ability to handle complex matters particularly in the areas of antitrust, arbitration, commercial, labor, financial, and public law.

www.esguerra.com

Arias is a Central American law firm with a solid regional presence, focused in providing reliable and accurate legal solutions, offering to clients the best legal talent in the region. Arias Costa Rican office has vast experience in local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. The firm has acted as counsel in the planning, negotiation and execution of many of the largest and most complex M&A deals in the region, representing both buyers and sellers, totaling an approximate aggregate value of US$2 billion. Arias has rendered advice in mergers, tender and exchange offers, leveraged buyouts, strategic alliances, collaborations and joint ventures, acquisitions and divestitures. Arias offers an extensive practice experience in Antitrust/Competition Law, both locally and internationally. The firm has vast experience advising on the following matters: concentrations, punitive administrative procedures related to competition issues, regulator investigations, compliance and training, antitrust analysis and free competition inquiries, advice and trainings to key personnel, review of antitrust policies in companies. The firm’s award-wining client service has been recognized repeatedly by Chambers & Partners and IFLR, among others.

https://ariaslaw.com/en/practice-area/antitrust/

Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka d.o.o. is a top-tier Croatian corporate and commercial legal service provider, widely regarded as one of the leading corporate law firms in Croatia. The Firm has been successfully advising national and multinational enterprises, financial institutions, investors and governments in both everyday business and sophisticated strategic transactions for 25 years now.

The Firm has registered office in Zagreb and its attorneys are licensed to practice law in Croatia.

Through its unmatched experience representing its clients doing business in Croatia, the Firm has developed highly specialized understanding of various industries and businesses. DTB’s expertise in M&A, corporate, real estate, energy, competition, banking & finance, employment, and project investment law is particularly strong and demonstrated by numerous engagements in the most complex and demanding takeover, development and infrastructure transactions in Croatia.

DTB’s 3 partners and 25 senior associates and associates make up one of Croatia’s strongest corporate and transactional legal teams offering business friendly solutions and competitive fee structures, with the highest professional standards. Being the largest provider of corporate legal services in Croatia, with over ten specialized practice groups, the Firm is able to always assemble a team specifically tailored to client’s needs and dedicated exclusively to the transaction at hand.

Finally, besides the native Croatian language, DTB’s attorneys are fluent in / court interpreters for / native speakers of English, German, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian.

Rankings

The Firm’s elite market position is reflected by its top tier rankings within the leading independent directories such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 and International Financial Law Review.

www.dtb.hr/en

Antoniou McCollum & Co. is a Cyprus law firm advising on competition, corporate, commercial and regulatory matters. It is consistently ranked as a top tier law firm by The Legal 500 on EU and competition law in Cyprus.

The firm is based in Nicosia and has worked on some of the biggest transactions in Cyprus over the past years, in a wide range of industries, including private equity, banking, technology, telecommunications, consumer goods and aviation.

The firm advises on cartels, dominance, economic dependence, merger control and State aid and represents clients before the Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition.

Antoniou McCollum & Co. has a particularly strong track record in clearing mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures with the Commission for the Protection of Competition and has handled some of the most complex merger filings in Cyprus.

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HAVEL & PARTNERS, with offices in Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Pilsen and Olomouc has a team of approx. 250 lawyers, economists and tax advisors, more than 150 associates and 500 employees in total, including employees of the affiliated collection agency Cash Collectors, and is the largest independent law firm in central Europe.

The clients of HAVEL & PARTNERS include large international companies, leading Czech firms, including strategic state-owned companies and public sector authorities, as well as medium-size businesses, individual entrepreneurs, and investors. The firm advises approximately 70 of the Fortune 500 companies and almost 50 of the Czech Top 100 companies, and currently provides its services to more than 2,500 clients.

HAVEL & PARTNERS has the most comprehensive international support available to Czech law firms. The firm provides legal and tax services in 12 languages in more than 80 countries around the globe. Up to 70% of the firm’s transactions involve an international aspect. HAVEL & PARTNERS works closely with leading international law firms in Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, and Australia.

HAVEL & PARTNERS has the largest team of competition lawyers and economists in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and offers comprehensive solutions for both countries. The team is led by Robert Neruda, the former vice-chairman of the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition. The firm's experts have unique experience from working at competition authorities. By unique combination of legal and economic advice, they are able to offer their clients the most effective way to solve complex issues in the field of the protection of competition and regulation.

www.havelpartners.cz/en

Accura is a leading Danish law firm known for its high quality, solution-oriented legal advice and its strong sense of urgency and great understanding of deal dynamics. The firm has +200 on staff, approximately 150 of whom are legal professionals.

Accura is a market leader in transactions and covers a comprehensive range of expertise regarding all aspects of legal services and transactions within M&A, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Private Equity, IPR, EU & Competition, Restructuring & Insolvency, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Dispute Resolution and Tax.

Accura’s EU & Competition Team advises clients on all matters related to competition law, state aid and public procurement. Given Accura’s preeminence in transactional work, merger filings and work related to merger regulation is a significant part of the team's work. The EU & Competition Team is very experienced in handling merger filings in Denmark and in the EU as well as coordinating merger filings in other jurisdictions. They have handled some of the most complex and challenging merger filings in Denmark in recent years and take pride in having a strong sense of urgency while keeping attention to detail in the merger related work.

The team has been a front runner in finding ways to optimize the interaction between the complex procedural rules and the goal of achieving excellent commercial results for clients, whether on the public or the private side.

www.accura.dk

ROBALINO Donoso Gachet Beltrán Pallares Valdivieso Weisson is one of Ecuador’s most reputable professional law firms, widely recognized as a leader in legal and consulting services.

The team at ROBALINO ABOGADOS was formed to provide world-class legal and professional services to the Ecuadorian market by applying best practices and following the highest international standards with a spirit of excellence and innovation. The firm’s professionals are highly specialized in their areas and have vast professional experience and intimate knowledge of the businesses of the firm’s clients. ROBALINO ABOGADOS one of the largest professional services firm in Ecuador, employing more than 80 attorneys and 40 consultants across its offices in Quito, Guayaquil and Manta.

ROBALINO ABOGADOS’ competition practice handles all types of competition matters including merger filings and the team has expertise in Economics, Regulatory Law, and Capital Markets Law. This allows the team to provide timely and multi-disciplinary solutions based on in-depth knowledge of the markets and the economic concepts applicable to each case.

www.robalinolaw.com

bnt attorneys in CEE is a leading CEE business law firm in 10 CEE countries. The firm has +130 on staff.

Clients are offered targeted legal advice from a single source for both local and cross-border assignments. bnt’s strength lies in its professional team of lawyers whose outstanding regional expertise is coupled with vast international experience.

In Estonia the team is formed by local Estonian and German trained legal professionals.

Company mergers and acquisitions are complex tasks. bnt creates sustainable solutions for all parties based on and many years of experience and in-depth knowledge within M&A, EU & Competition, Banking & Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Dispute Resolution.

Besides merger control, the team’s advice in the field of competition law comprises antitrust, state aid and public procurement law.

www.bnt.eu

The CMS Competition Group is one of the largest competition teams in Europe and at the same time the most wide-spread in terms of countries covered. We offer a one-stop-shop solution to clients for all their competition law needs across Europe and beyond. With a track record of more than 40 years of experience CMS lawyers have been involved in a high number of competition cases, many leading to landmark decisions by the EU courts or a national level.

The CMS EU Law Office in Brussels is the firm’s center of excellence for EU and competition law. Our team of experienced lawyers works on complex national and international proceedings. We advise on mergers, cartel and cartel fine proceedings and support you on distribution law and foreign trade matters. Our Brussels office can also advise you on state aid issues while drawing on our special public commercial law and financing know-how.

https://cms.law/en/bel/office/brussels-eu-law-office

Borenius is one of the largest and most experienced law firms in Finland. With over 120 lawyers, Borenius is well-equipped to provide services in all areas of law for corporate clients. Borenius has offices in Finland, St. Petersburg and New York, which will guarantee easy access to global full-scale business law solutions.

As a leading independent Finnish law firm, Borenius works together with other highly regarded law firms across the globe that share commitment to excellent service and quality.

Borenius has extensive experience in preventing and handling the risks associated with antitrust and competition law matters. Borenius’ team of outstanding individuals has an impressive track record of advising clients on cases involving alleged cartels, dominance, restrictive commercial practices and market/sector investigations.

Borenius is regularly involved in some of the most difficult and sensitive merger control cases and is often involved in Phase II merger control investigations entailing detailed remedy negotiations. Similarly, where clients’ commercial interests may be negatively affected by a merger between competitors, suppliers or customers, clients can rely on Borenius to deliver realistic advice, focus their competition arguments and advocate their case effectively to competition authorities.

www.borenius.com

CMS is one of the leading law firms in Germany with more than 600 lawyers in eight offices. CMS lawyers not only have the necessary specialist expertise in all areas of law, they are also familiar with the market-specific requirements in all branches of industry and sectors.

The competition law expertise at CMS in Germany stretches back more than 40 years and with some 30 lawyers across several offices CMS has one of the largest competition law teams in Germany. CMS Germany is part of the competition practice group of the CMS network, which offers the most widespread pan-European coverage and combines globally more than 180 competition lawyers based in 34 countries. The CMS competition group always follows the aim to provide clients with pragmatic solutions, not merely listing the risks. What sets the CMS competition lawyers apart is the thorough understanding of economic interests, the focus on specific industries, and years of experience acquired in numerous proceedings before European and German competition authorities and courts.

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Ashurst is a leading global law firm with a rich history spanning almost 200 years. The firm currently has 27 offices in 16 countries and a number of referral relationships that offers the reach and insight of a global network, combined with the knowledge and understanding of local markets.

Ashurst's competition practice continues as a leader in the market. The Asia practice is dynamic and highly capable across the full suite of competition law issues, including domestic and cross-border merger clearances, cartel conduct, infrastructure access issues, consumer protection, market investigations and market studies, misuse of market power and other competition law prohibitions, and appeals and litigation. In addition to undertaking pre-eminent merger clearance matters, the firm is proud to be increasingly recognised for its success in closing large, confidential investigations, and the receipt of multiple mandates in relation to high profile market inquiries.

The team's loyal clients include international and Hong-Kong based businesses across many industries including oil and gas, energy, technology and digital media, financial services, infrastructure and building products, food and consumer products and agriculture.

www.ashurst.com/en/expertise/practices/competition-and-antitrust/

Oppenheim is the largest independent Hungarian law firm.

The Antitrust, Competition and Trade practice of Oppenheim covers the complete spectrum of Hungarian and European competition and trade law. We have particular expertise in European and Hungarian antitrust law as well as in merger control related issues.

Oppenheim assists its clients in legal disputes concerning unfair competition / passing-off, misleading of consumers and the abuse of significant market power (a statutory prohibition applicable to a number of network industries and also in the general food and non-food retail sector). The firm frequently represents clients in relation to private enforcement proceedings.

Oppenheim’s competition team is also able to provide merger control advice at all stages of a transaction. The firm is regularly involved at the planning and due diligence stage of a transaction, during the course of contractual negotiations and subsequently in respect of the filing of any notifications with any competent authorities. Oppenheim is able to identify and advise upon any merger control related issues at a very early stage of a transaction.

The firm provides practical legal advice and assistance during the whole course of a competition investigation by the competent authorities, including in respect of a “dawn raid” and any subsequent court proceedings.

Oppenheim also advises on a wide range of state aid matters including investment grants, restructuring aid, state aid aspects of privatisation of state owned companies and state aid to undertakings providing a service of general economic interest.

Oppenheim’s Antitrust, Competition and Trade practice has an outstanding reputation in antitrust law:

Chambers&Partners has consistently selected Oppenheim as a Band 1 law firm in the last couple of years for Hungary

“Eminent competition practice, with an impressive team of highly rated practitioners. Renowned for its expertise in all manner of cartel, merger control, abuse of dominance, market sharing and procurement cases, as well as competition compliance. Regularly acts for leading international and domestic clients, especially in the energy, telecommunications, food and banking sectors.”

Legal 500 has consistently selected Oppenheim as a Tier 1 law firm in the last couple of years for Hungary

“Oppenheim […] is experienced in handling cartel investigations and state aid matters and is regularly involved in antitrust and merger control cases. It successfully represented international wholesale chain Metro in proceedings before the Hungarian Competition Authority. Team head Gábor Fejes is recommended, as are Zoltán Marosi, who is ‘experienced’, and associate Balázs Csépai.”

Global Competition Review – Oppenheim ranked as “Elite” for Hungary

Who’s Who Legal: Competition 2019: Gábor Fejes and Zoltán Marosi are recommended lawyers and future leaders

“Legal500 Hall of Fame”: Gábor Fejes and Zoltán Marosi have been selected as members in 2019

www.oppenheimlegal.com

BBA//Fjeldco is a corporate law firm in Iceland with expert attorneys qualified in Iceland, England, France, and New York. The firm is leading in the field of mergers and acquisitions, merger control issues, capital markets, banking and corporate finance, as well as general corporate and commercial law. Due to a distinguished reputation and first-rate expertise, the firm has been entrusted by both local and international clients to provide advice on many of Iceland’s biggest and most complicated financing and M&A deals and handled many of the more complex merger filings in recent years.

BBA//Fjeldco’s Competition Team advises clients on all aspects of competition law, irrespective of whether such issues arise in relation to M&A transactions or more generally regarding commercial agreements and market conduct. Further, BBA//Fjeldco regularly acts for both local and international clients in their communication and notices to the Icelandic Competition Authority. The firm’s experience and expertise in the field has ensured clients high-quality service and best practice and resulted in BBA//Fjeldco earning a continuous top-tier ranking by all the major ranking firms during the last decade.

www.bbafjeldco.is

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is one of the largest full-service law firms in India, with around 750 lawyers, including over 130 partners, and a pan-India presence through its offices in six major Indian cities ? Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad. It was ranked as ‘Law Firm of the Year, India’ by Asialaw in 2019 and ‘Law Firm of the Year, India’ in 2018 by Chambers and Partners.

The firm advises a large and diverse set of clients, including domestic and foreign commercial enterprises, financial institutions, private equity funds, venture capital funds, start-ups and governmental and regulatory bodies.

The firm’s key practice areas are corporate, dispute resolution, banking and finance, capital markets and infrastructure and project finance, which are supported by specialised practice groups, namely competition law, employment law, financial regulatory, investment funds, intellectual property, private client, real estate, tax, TMT, bankruptcy.

Among the specialised practice groups of the firm, the Competition/Antitrust Practice is one of the most established in India, with a team of 15 lawyers based in New Delhi and Mumbai. This practice offers an insightful combination of legal, strategic, commercial and regulatory expertise for the benefit of domestic and international clients, spanning across sectors. The practice also stands out for its innovative solution-oriented structuring, credibility with the regulator and interface with reputed economists. Over the years, the team has been involved in some of the most challenging and complex behavioural cases and mergers and acquisitions, including several multi-jurisdictional matters.

https://www.cyrilshroff.com/competition-law/

Assegaf Hamzah & Partners is a full-service Indonesian law firm with a reputation for innovation and commercial acumen. Lawyers in the Firm have extensive first-hand experience representing a wide variety of blue-chip corporate clients, high net worth individuals, government institutions and major public enterprises. The Firm’s clients covers a broad spectrum of businesses and industries, including financial services, manufacturing, media, technology and digital, automotive, energy, aviation, constructions, plantations, forestry and natural resources.

The Firm’s lawyers are well known for their ability to provide cross-cutting advice that transcends rigid practice area specialisation to provide clients with comprehensive solutions. The Firm works closely with highly regarded domestic and international law firms on a full range of legal and advisory services in Indonesian, English, Malay, Mandarin and Japanese.

Assegaf Hamzah & Partners’ competition practice is widely recognized as being at the forefront of competition law in Indonesia and has secured several ground-breaking judicial decisions in recent years. The dedicated team of lawyers and economists ensures that their client’s deals and operations comply with Indonesia’s stringent competition regime and guides them through the merger notification requirements established by the KPPU. Given the inherent nexus between consumer protection and competition law, the competition practice also regularly advises clients on matters related to consumer protection.

https://id.rajahtannasia.com/

With over 320 legal and tax professionals and over 460 staff, William Fry is a leading Irish law firm. Headquartered in Dublin, with international offices in London, New York, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the Firm advises leading domestic and international corporations, financial institutions and government organisations. Among many other awards, the Firm received the award for International Law Firm of the Year 2018 from the Legal Business Awards.

William Fry's Competition and Regulation team is consistently ranked in the top tier of Irish advisers for Competition & Regulation work by leading directories including Chambers Europe and the Legal 500 EMEA.

The team combines technical expertise with a practical problem-solving approach to legal issues and covers all aspects of competition law, advising and representing domestic and international clients in connection with:

• EU and Irish rules on anti-competitive agreements and abuse of a dominant position, including investigations by the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (the "CCPC"), the European Commission (the "EC") and the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and in stand-alone and follow-on damages actions;
• merger filings to the CCPC and the EC;
• State aid, including litigating a State aid case before the Court of Justice of the European Union; and
• general EU and regulatory law.

www.williamfry.com

Meitar is the largest law firm in Israel, and Israel's leading international law firm. The firm represents some of the world’s largest multinational corporations in corporate, commercial, litigation and regulatory matters, in Israel and abroad. Meitar is a full-service firm, representing clients in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, international and domestic capital markets, banking, finance and derivatives, corporate and commercial litigation, licensing, hi-tech, energy and infrastructure, real estate, competition and antitrust, taxation and other regulatory matters. Meitar represents clients in Israel’s largest corporate and finance transactions and international public offerings, and has represented some of the world’s leading companies and banks in corporate and class-action litigation. Meitar consistently receives the highest rankings from international independent guides, such as Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 and from local guides in Israel such as Dun's 100 and BDI. The firm has a strong team of over 400 attorneys and 66 articled clerks, all of whom are committed to maintaining highest standards of excellence and service. Meitar's antitrust group is one of the largest in Israel and is composed of a majority of ex-Competition Authority employees, with extensive experience on how the Authority works and thinks. The group regularly advises clients, from a variety of industries, on matters relating to compliance with antitrust and competition law, including with respect to monopolies, restraints of trade, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions. The group also works with some of the world's largest international law firms on the Israeli antitrust filings for major multinational merger transactions, and on assessing transactions under the Israeli antitrust law. Meitar's antitrust group is in frequent contact with the teams of the Competition Authority and is experienced in finding creative and suitable answers to competitive concerns. The group's attorneys regularly represent companies before the Israeli Competition Tribunal regarding, inter alia, appeals over the Competition Authority's decisions and requests for the approval of restrictive arrangements. Proceedings before the Competition Tribunal, which usually include a review of economic opinions, are unique and include different procedural rules from those applying to regular courts. The firm's antitrust attorneys also appear before Israel's Supreme Court and District Courts on matters relating to trade regulation and competition law. Meitar’s antitrust group is also involved in class action proceedings relating to competition law, inter alia, regarding cartels and excessive pricing by monopolies claims. Meitar regularly advise some of Israel's largest companies, as well as multinational companies with Israeli operations, on antitrust compliance issues including the establishment of internal compliance programs.

www.meitar.com

Miura & Partners was founded in January 2019 by Mr. Ryota Miura, together with a team of experienced lawyers, with the goal of establishing a professional law firm where client satisfaction is the starting point. The team believes that the role of legal professionals is not just to advise on specific legal provisions, but to provide comprehensive legal advice and support to assist clients in achieving their business goals.

Miura & Partners is a full-service law firm, covering all aspects of business law including M&A, joint venture, competition law, intellectual property law, and dispute resolution. Competition law practice is one of the key areas of practice in the firm, having ex-JFTC lawyers with experience in a wide range of competition matters. The team has had experience with various merger control cases, both in-bound and out-bound transactions, and obtained clearance from the JFTC in an efficient manner.

Miura & Partners provides legal services to a wide range of clients for numerous legal issues related to their domestic and international business. The team strives to understand the business objective of each client and provide tailored solutions to meet their strategic business goals. With the team’s deep knowledge of the Japanese market and rich experience working in foreign jurisdictions, the firm is in a strong position to assist both domestic and international clients.

https://www.miura-partners.com/en/

Zan Hub is a leading Kazakhstan law firm gathering experienced, highly qualified, ambitious and business oriented lawyers, with background in top international and local law firms and corporations, and providing full legal services.

The competition practice, headed and developed by the firm’s partner Akylbek Kussainov, is among the firm’s strongest practices.

Members of the firm’s competition team are recognized and reputable experts in Kazakhstan known for comprehensive and highly qualified expertise. The team always aims to deliver pragmatic and efficient solutions to businesses on all competition matters.

The firm’s services in competition practice includes matters such as:

• advising on anti-competitive agreements and activities, non-compete arrangements, cartels, unfair competition, dominant and monopolistic activities and practices;
• structuring M&A transactions to simplify or avoid (where possible) merger control proceedings and requirements;
• clearing complex transactions with Kazakhstan competition authority;
• drafting polices on compliance, sale, commercial activity, bonuses and discounts;
• representing clients in investigations led by Kazakhstan competition authority;
• adopting various types of contracts (e.g. distribution, franchising) to ensure competition compliance;
• conducting compliance trainings.

The head of the competition practice is also actively engaged in advancement of law and practice through participation in professional associations in Kazakhstan and in the Eurasian Economic Union.

https://www.zanhub.com/en/

Rajah & Tann (Laos) Co., Ltd. has in-depth local knowledge and wide-ranging expertise within this country’s ever-changing business and legal landscape.

The firm advises on a broad range of commercial transactions, working with accountants, bankers, insurers and regulators in the more complex transactions and provides innovative, in-depth, sound and practical legal and business advice – from the inception of investments and acquisitions, through to business operations during the life of the projects.

The firm’s multi-faceted talent pool of lawyers works closely with lawyers from the various Rajah & Tann Asia network in a range of practice areas and they are able to provide end-to-end legal services for all transactions in Lao PDR.

https://la.rajahtannasia.com/

bnt attorneys in CEE is a leading CEE business law firm in 10 CEE countries. The firm has +130 on staff.

Clients are offered targeted legal advice from a single source for both local and cross-border assignments. bnt’s strength lies in its professional team of lawyers whose outstanding regional expertise is coupled with vast international experience.

In Latvia the team is formed by local Latvian and German trained legal professionals.

Company mergers and acquisitions are complex tasks. bnt creates sustainable solutions for all parties based on and many years of experience and in-depth knowledge within M&A, EU & Competition, Banking & Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Dispute Resolution.

Besides merger control, the team’s advice in the field of competition law comprises antitrust, state aid and public procurement law.

www.bnt.eu

bnt attorneys in CEE is a leading CEE business law firm in 10 CEE countries. The firm has +130 on staff.

Clients are offered targeted legal advice from a single source for both local and cross-border assignments. bnt’s strength lies in its professional team of lawyers whose outstanding regional expertise is coupled with vast international experience.

In Lithuania the team is formed by local Lithuanian and German trained legal professionals.

Company mergers and acquisitions are complex tasks. bnt creates sustainable solutions for all parties based on and many years of experience and in-depth knowledge within M&A, EU & Competition, Banking & Finance, Restructuring & Insolvency, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Dispute Resolution.

Besides merger control, the team’s advice in the field of competition law comprises antitrust, state aid and public procurement law.

www.bnt.eu

Shearn Delamore & Co. is one of the largest, award-winning full service law firms in Malaysia with more than 100 lawyers and 280 support staff. The firm’s qualifications and experience encompass several areas of practice, each with sub-practice areas, all of which have served the needs of clients across a broad range of industries.

The firm offers specialist advice in competition and antitrust work with expertise in a full spectrum of commercial activities spanning key industries; oil and gas, general merchandising and retail, logistics, pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical devices, telecommunications and multimedia, aviation, construction, fast moving consumer goods, direct selling, manufacturing and distribution, hospitality, insurance, paint manufacturing and production, automotive and others.

Within this practice, the firm’s areas of work include:

• Competition and Antitrust Advisory
• Compliance Audits, Reviews and Due Diligence
• Enquiries, Investigations and Dawn Raids
• Competition Dispute Resolution and Private Actions
• Competition law concerns in relation to other areas of the law

Accolades

• Asian Mena Counsel 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016 - In-House Community Firm of the Year in Antitrust/Competition
• Global Competition Review 2017, 2018 and 2019 - “Elite Firm” for Competition practice
• Global Competition Review 2012 - 2016 - “Highly Recommended” for Competition practice
• Asialaw Profiles (2017 - 2019) - Outstanding Firm for Competition and Antitrust
• Asialaw Profiles (2014 - 2016) - Highly Recommended Firm for Competition and Antitrust
• The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 and 2019 - Top Tier Firm for Antitrust and Competition

www.shearndelamore.com

Mamo TCV Advocates Advocates is one of Malta’s leading law firms, with significant depth and expertise across a broad range of practice areas. As an integrated corporate and commercial legal practice, the service delivery is the firm’s pride. With a team of over fifty lawyers and professionals from other disciplines, the firm has built strong relationships with its clients and will remain committed to supporting them at all times as they face complex business and legal issues. Mamo TCV has assisted clients in complex transactions and has become the preferred correspondent in Malta for some of Europe’s largest legal firms. The firm is highly connected within a global network of lawyers giving access to global expertise.

Over recent years Mamo TCV has been top ranked by The Legal 500, IFLR 1000, Martindale-Hubbell, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe. The competition law department at Mamo TCV Advocates has been consistently ranked as ‘Band 1’ by Chambers Europe.

Mamo TCV Advocates is one of the first and few firms in Malta to have a dedicated competition law department, which deals with all matters pertaining to competition law (including mergers and state aid) from a holistic point of view, including administrative, human rights, constitutional and civil law considerations.

The team deals with matters related to competition law in various sectors, such as energy, entertainment, financial services and telecommunications. The competition law department at Mamo TCV Advocates is known for the full breadth of competition related matters, including:

• Assisting, advising and representing clients during investigations by the Office for Competition;
• Assisting, advising and representing clients in competition litigation in front of the Competition and Consumer Appeals Tribunal and the civil courts;
• Making submissions to regulatory authorities;
• Advising on merger control and sale of business;
• Advising on contracts, particularly distribution, agency and franchising;
• Advising clients on regulatory matters, state aid issues and public procurement.

mamotcv.com

Galicia Abogados, S.C. is a leading law firm in Mexico, with offices in Mexico City and Monterrey, founded more than 25 years ago. The firm has ample experience in a wide variety of industries and practices, including commercial law, general corporate practice, banking, securities, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, real-estate, private equity, project finance, debt restructuring, foreign investments, estate planning, international trade, antitrust, telecommunications, energy, gas and petrochemical, environmental, and administrative litigation, among others. Galicia provides extensive legal services to major domestic and foreign entities and corporations.

The firm has a comprehensive and sophisticated competition and antitrust practice, the services of which range from ordinary merger control filings to critical and complex antitrust matters, including challenged M&A transactions, cartel and other antitrust investigations, leniency applications, complaints before the competition authorities seeking relief for anticompetitive behavior and general advice on day-to-day antitrust and competition law issues.

The competition and antitrust group at Galicia combines talented practitioners with considerable legal backgrounds in other disciplines and sectors, which in turn allows the firm to better respond to the needs of its clients. Along the same lines, working closely with its litigation department in court proceedings involving competition cases has been of particular importance in ensuring a comprehensive and strategic provision of services to its clients.

Galicia features a legal team of over 160 professionals and a multidisciplinary approach with more than 20 areas. The Firm enjoys wide recognition among clients, peers and specialized publications.

www.galicia.com.mx

Rajah & Tann NK Legal Myanmar Company Limited is a well-established firm with Myanmar-qualified lawyers, highly experienced in handling both the challenges presented by the country’s fast-developing legal and regulatory framework, and the opportunities arising in this important emerging market.

The firm has acted in a diverse and complex portfolio of projects across sectors such as energy, construction, real estate development, shipping, healthcare, education, logistics, FMCG and financial services, etc. The firm also routinely advise on joint ventures between international and Myanmar companies, as well as on appropriate investment structures for foreign businesses looking to play their part in building its country’s economy.

Since the introduction of the Myanmar Competition Law in 2015, the Firm has assisted various companies in putting in place regulatory compliance programmes. Particularly, the firm has prepared and conducted multiple training programs to employees in Myanmar branches of multi-national conglomerates to ensure the Competition regime in Myanmar and its implications are fully understood.

Moreover, the firm has also provided Legal Opinions and Advices on the Competition practice in Myanmar covering a wide scope of regulatory framework, authority structure, current practice and expected cases and changes in the future.

https://mm.rajahtannasia.com/

Van Doorne is a full-service leading independent Dutch law firm with around 185 lawyers. Van Doorne has been advising clients for 90 years with a broad range of legal expertise. The firm's lawyers are internationally recognised as leading experts, both in their areas of practice and industries in which they operate.

Van Doorne's mission is to empower people and organisations and to work on responsible, permanent solutions together. This is reflected throughout the company: from the way in which lawyers work together to the idealistic organisations which the firm supports. Van Doorne reaches further and yet stays close. This is a promise which the firm makes to employees and clients.

Van Doorne’s internationally recognised EU and competition practice is an integral part of the firm’s top-tier industry focus groups. The team covers all sectors, and has a depth of specific expertise in consumer goods and retail (including e-commerce), industrial (chemical) products, entertainment (including sport and gaming), healthcare, life sciences, and other regulated sectors, including energy and financial services. Van Doorne serves national and international clients in the context of transactions, strategic choices and enforcement actions by competition authorities. Van Doorne achieves innovative and pragmatic solutions both in the context of merger control proceedings and during proceedings before civil or administrative courts.

https://www.vandoorne.com/en/expertise/european-competition-law/

Russell McVeagh is the premier law firm in New Zealand, characterised by a dynamic network of specialists who are champions for their clients’ strategic goals. This full-service firm provides exceptional service through its comprehensive range of practice areas, and is known for outstanding client relations and teamwork. Russell McVeagh is committed to operating on the cutting edge of legal practice and their competition and consumer law team boasts award-winning lawyers who are internationally-recognised for their thought-leadership, depth of experience and ability to translate complex legal issues into client success stories. The firm's lawyers and respective teams have a reputation for collaborating to provide clear, pragmatic and innovative advice. Russell McVeagh has a leading presence in the New Zealand market, having acted for many major New Zealand and international companies and on high profile and significant matters. The team has an active presence in contributing to leading publications and regularly speaking at industry events.

russellmcveagh.com/expertise/competition-and-antitrust

Established in 1856, Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS is considered to be one of Norway’s leading commercial law firms. The firm has offices in Oslo, Bergen and London. The firm provides advice to Norwegian and international companies as well as organisations in the public and private sectors, ranging from SMEs to large multi-national corporations. Thommessen covers all business related fields of law. 250 people work at Thommessen today. Approximately 180 of them are lawyers.

As a leading law firm with long traditions, Thommessen has played a role in some of the biggest events and changes in the Norwegian legal and business landscape.

Within EU/EEA & Competition Law, Thommessen has been involved in major issues within Norway – from complex merger cases to possible breaches of competition law. Several cases have been landmark decisions, influencing the development of the law, and have been of large economic and commercial significance for the clients.

The firm has extensive experience with the four important pillars of EU/EEA & Competition Law: competition, public procurement, state aid and the four freedoms. Thommessen assists on transactions, contract negotiation and commercial projects in the litigation process and on major investigative matters.

The firm is a market leader in Norway as evidenced by its rankings in recognized research publications such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, GCR100 and Who's Who Legal.

www.thommessen.no/en

Vouga Abogados is one of the largest, most prominent, and experienced law firms in Paraguay. A full-service firm with experience spanning almost four decades, Vouga advises some of the largest multinational companies, financial and multilateral credit institutions, NGOs, public entities and sophisticated local companies and individuals doing business in Paraguay; complying with the most stringent ethical standards.

The leaders of this strong team of legal and accounting professionals, organised into practice groups, are widely recognised in their fields. The firm’s focus on responsiveness, built on strong investments in human resources and technology, enables it to render world-class services in a time-efficient manner.

Vouga’s Competition Law practice area has been involved in some of the most significant transactions in Paraguay, involving the most complex merger notifications with the Paraguayan Competition Authority. The team has also been involved in the negotiation, implementation and monitoring of commitments and remedies plans imposed in merger approvals. The Competition Law practice also represents clients in connection with investigations and procedures before the Paraguayan Competition Authority.

www.vouga.com.py

Díez Canseco Competencia & PI provides highly specialized services and the firm is highly recognized for its competition law practice. In fact the firm has assisted the Peruvian government in establishing the current merger control regime.

To obtain the best legal strategy to each specific case, the firm follows the methodology of 'Design Thinking' through which it attempts to understand the industry, the client’s business and as well as the interests of any other stakeholders committed to design the best legal strategy to each specific case.

The firm believes that a “culture of prevention” is one of the basic pillars for doing business in any corporation. This is particularly important since the Peruvian competition agency is very active in supervising markets and promoting compliance programs. In addition, the preventive approach has become even more essential with the approval of a law in 2020 to penalize anticompetitive practices aside from the administrative sanctions that already existed.

However, when prevention is not enough, litigation is also an important strength of the firm.

Díez Canseco recognizes the importance of diversity. The partners have complementary backgrounds and skills. They have experience working in public institutions such as the Peruvian competition authority (Indecopi), the telecommunications regulator (Osiptel) and the energy regulator (Osinergmin). Likewise, the senior partners of the firm count on a wide professional experience and a significant international perspective, having occupied high positions in international authorities such as the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) and in international law associations such as ASIPI, ECTA and INTA.

National and international businesses, associations and individuals benefit from the firm’s multidisciplinary team with solid experience in highly complex matters.

The firm also promotes the academic activity of its members, who participate as expert panelists in forums and conferences and are also authors of opinion and research publications in relevant academic law journals.

Finally, the company’s practice in competition and antitrust has been recognized as one of the most valuable in the Peruvian market. Chambers and Partners Latin America, Legal 500 and Leaders League place the firm within their first positions.

www.diezcanseco.pe

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan (SyCipLaw) was founded in 1945. It is the largest law firm in the Philippines. It has offices in Makati City, the country’s business and financial center, as well as Cebu, Davao and the Subic Freeport. SyCipLaw offers a range of legal services, covering the following fields: Banking, finance and securities, Special projects, Corporate services, General business law, Tax, Intellectual property, Employment and Immigration and Dispute resolution. It has specialists in key practice areas such as mergers and acquisitions, energy, power, infrastructure, natural resources, competition law, transportation, government contracts, real estate, insurance, international arbitration, mediation, media, business process outsourcing, and technology.

SyCipLaw represents clients from almost every industry and enterprise, and the firm’s client portfolio includes local and global business leaders. It also acts for governmental agencies, international organizations, and non-profit institutions.

SyCipLaw has an active competition law practice group that regular advises and represents domestic and international clients in connection with Philippine competition laws and regulations, including merger control filings with the Philippine Competition Commission.

The Firm is Recommended in Competition and Antitrust in the 2018 Asialaw Profiles and a noted law firm in Competition and Anti-Trust Asia Business Legal Journal. Mr. Franco Aristotle G. Larcina and Ms. Arlene M. Maneja have been recognized as Asialaw Distinguished Practitioners 2020 in Competition/Antitrust. Mr. Lacina has also been recognized as a “Future Leader” in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Global Competition Review’s Who’s Who Legal: Competition.

www.syciplaw.com/

Allen & Overy was one of the first international legal practices to open an office in Poland in 1991. Since then, the Warsaw office of Allen & Overy has developed into a leading practice with an outstanding reputation for our role in high-profile and challenging Polish and EU antitrust law cases. As an integrated part of Allen & Overy’s U.S.-European Antitrust group, the Warsaw team meets its challenge with ease, having developed expertise both in the provision of strategic advice in wide range of competition matters and offering a top-level, pan-European, client-focused service in relation to:

• Cartel investigations
• Leniency applications
• Distribution systems, including designing novel business strategies
• Abuse of dominance
• Cross-border mergers and acquisitions
• Antitrust litigation
• Compliance training and competition seminars
• State aid
• Public procurement
• Advice on regulatory and antitrust aspects in the financial services, telecommunications, media, pharmaceutical, technology, energy, utilities and other sectors
• Consumer law

"The team shows a very pro-active approach to clients: they are very good at understanding what we want and how to address our needs." Chambers Europe 2018 (Competition/Antitrust – Poland)

Ranked "Elite" by Global Competition Review 2011-2018

www.allenovery.com

Peli Partners is a Romanian law firm formed of experienced lawyers working as a close-knit team.

Operating as a full-service law firm, Peli Partners is established based on a pledge to continually update and upgrade its services to the benefit of all its clients, team, and stakeholders.

Peli Partners’ outstanding competition team places it among a very select group of Romanian firms having tremendous knowledge, experience and capabilities in antitrust and state-aid matters.

The competition team at Peli Partners is permanently connected to the developments of the local and EU practice and is very experienced in handling merger filings in Romania, having been involved in some of the most complex transactions on the market.

pelipartners.com

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is the leading law firm in Russia.

Founded in 1993, the firm provides a full range of legal services to domestic and foreign businesses, international organizations and financial institutions across the CIS.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners advise its clients in many areas of law, including commercial dispute resolution in Russia and abroad, corporate law, M&A, project finance and PPP, antitrust practice, restructurings and insolvencies. The firm also offers clients advice on energy and natural resources, property management and privatization, environment, technical regulation and industrial safety, banking and finance, intellectual property, criminal law, real estate and construction, taxation, family and labour disputes, marine and transport law, and international trade and customs.

The firm combines expertise in emerging markets with the highest professional standards. The firm offers clients a comprehensive approach with a blend of legal advice, representation of clients before the regulator, interaction with mass media and general public and other services.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners’ lawyers are highly qualified legal experts with experience of working in-house and in academia.

The firm's experts are actively involved in business and legal communities and are regularly engaged as consultants on various aspects of law by executive, legislature, and judiciary authorities, as well as Russian and foreign NGOs.

The firm also has offices in Ukraine and Belarus and associated offices in the UK, the USA and Cyprus. The firm's lawyers can provide services in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese languages.

www.epam.ru/eng/

Karanovic & Partners is a leading legal practice in Serbia with tradition spanning two decades. With more than 100 attorneys at law cooperating across Southeast Europe, the firm works with some of the most respected and reputable businesses in the world, banks, as well as governments, state-owned entities, startups and NGOs.

Karanovic & Partners focuses on straightforward solutions and tailor-made advice. Karanovic & Partners operates under the “one team” principle, combining its regional reach and local know-how to deliver coordinated legal advice necessary for achieving clients’ goals.

Due to strict regulations, competition law requires a highly professional approach and sophisticated know-how when it comes to solving and preventing competition issues. With more than a decade of experience, Karanovic & Partners’ team of internationally recognized competition lawyers offers keen insights into the specificities of different legal frameworks in the Western Balkans and the European Union jurisdictions.

The firm provide a complete range of competition law related services, including multijurisdictional merger control, antitrust and competition law compliance, sector regulation, abuse of dominance, cartels and restrictive agreements, state aid and competition enforcement, as well as competition litigation.

www.karanovicpartners.com

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP is one of the largest full service law firms in Singapore with over 300 lawyers, providing a vast pool of talented and well regarded lawyers dedicated to delivering the highest standards of service across all practice areas.

Responsiveness, knowledge, commercial acumen and solutions oriented: these are some key attributes that make the Competition & Antitrust and Trade Practice a clear force in this highly specialised area in Singapore and across the region. Comprising both lawyers and economists, some of whom have worked within the regulators as well as in-house, the Practice has gained a reputation for being at the cutting edge, with numerous accolades to its name. It has been involved in all significant competition matters in Singapore and recognised as being at the top of its game with clients praising the business-friendly approach coupled with an in-depth knowledge of the local and regional regulatory environment.

The Practice handles the complete range of competition work, from auditing businesses, setting up and implementing compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions to training, advising on all types of agreements and conduct, filing applications with competition authorities across the region and further afield both for exemptions of agreements and merger clearances, to assisting clients in investigations conducted by competition authorities alone or across multiple jurisdictions, and applying for leniency. The team also assists clients in filing complaints with competition authorities or opposing notified mergers.

The Practice’s stellar client base includes businesses across all industries, including in aviation, automobile, banking, finance, fintech, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, data centres, construction, ecommerce, education, energy & power, FMCG, health, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, media, paper, petroleum, semiconductor, shipping, steel, telecommunications, tobacco and utilities, among others.

By always being a step ahead, Rajah & Tann Singapore gives its clients a unique competitive advantage.

https://sg.rajahtannasia.com/

HAVEL & PARTNERS, with offices in Bratislava, Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Pilsen and Olomouc has a team of approx. 250 lawyers, economists and tax advisors, more than 150 associates and 500 employees in total, including employees of the affiliated collection agency Cash Collectors, and is the largest independent law firm in central Europe. The Slovak legal team currently consists of more than 30 lawyers, which makes it the biggest Czech law firm active in Slovakia and the fourth largest local law firm in Slovakia.

The Bratislava office of HAVEL & PARTNERS is the main contact point for clients from Slovakia, as well as Czech and international clients doing business in Slovakia. The clients of Bratislava office include large international companies, medium-sized companies, individual entrepreneurs and investors. The office provides services to approximately 300 permanent clients, most of the major Slovak financial groups and about a quarter of the 100 largest Slovak companies. The office provides its clients with comprehensive legal and tax services in all common branches of law relating to the clients’ business activities.

HAVEL & PARTNERS has the most comprehensive international support available to Slovak law firms. The firm provides legal and tax services in 12 languages in more than 80 countries around the globe.

HAVEL & PARTNERS has the largest team of competition lawyers and economists in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and offers comprehensive solutions for both countries. The Slovak team is led by Robert Neruda, the former vice-chairman of the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition and Lenka Gachová, the former director of the department (vertical agreement and abuse of dominance) at the Czech authority. By combining legal and economic advice, they are able to offer their clients the most effective way to solve complex issues in the field of the protection of competition and regulation.

www.havelpartners.sk/en

Ketler & Partners is a full-service law firm operating in Slovenia, and a member of Karanovic, an association of independent law firms established under Swiss Law. Apart from being one of the leading legal practices in Slovenia and providing top-tier legal and commercial advisory in Slovenia, Ketler & Partners have a substantial regional reach as a member of Karanovic.

The firm combines expertise in a variety of diverse legal services encompassing everything from corporate, competition, commercial and tax areas of law, and offers to clients tailor-made comprehensive and integrated solutions, catering to the needs of the clients under the “one team” principle, combining the regional reach and the local know-how. The client list contains reputable foreign businesses as well as major local clients. The synergy between the expertise of the firm in corporate, competition and commercial areas of law, as well as the mix of the firm’s lawyers’ global mind-set and significant experience with local competition matters, allows to provide clients with the most practically applicable advice in the region for solving and preventing various competition issues. The team of internationally recognized competition lawyers at Ketler & Partners, member of Karanovic, offers keen insights into the specifics of different legal frameworks in the Western Balkans and the European Union jurisdictions. The firm provides a complete range of competition law related services, including multijurisdictional merger control, antitrust and competition law compliance, sector regulation, abuse of dominance, cartels and restrictive agreements, state aid and competition enforcement, as well as support in competition litigation.

The firm respects deeply the successful client relationships. These relationships are developed through commitment to purpose, clarity of responsibility and effective access to the legal and tax expertise the clients require.

www.karanovicpartners.com

With 1,000 lawyers, Cuatrecasas is present in 12 countries, with a strong focus on Spain and Latin America. The firm advises on all areas of business law, applying a sectorial approach and covering all types of business. Cuatrecasas combines maximum technical expertise with business vision.

The Competition and EU Law team is one of the largest in Spain and the only team with a leading presence in both Madrid and Barcelona. Both teams handle cases that have significant implications for Spanish or European competition law, advising on antitrust, merger control, state aid and general EU law issues, including infringement procedures and judicial appeals before European and national competition authorities and courts.

The team regularly advises on complex and high-profile transactions. It has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions (including public takeover bids) and joint ventures, and in all types of investigations, including first- and second-phase clearances, clearances subject to commitments, and referrals to and from the European Commission.

The team also has significant experience in all major sectors, including telecoms, energy and utilities, banking and financial services, and luxury goods, and in a wide variety of situations, from infrastructure projects to pricing models.

Cuatrecasas works with a new approach to client service, combining collective knowledge with innovation and the latest technologies. The firm fosters collaboration across disciplines and with its clients to deliver the best results, fast.

In 2018, Cuatrecasas was considered the “Most innovative law firm (outside UK)” in the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards. Cuatrecasas is also acknowledged as number 1 in the main legal practices by international directories such as Chambers and Legal 500.

www.cuatrecasas.com

Kastell is a niche firm in the true sense of the word. The firm focuses exclusively on three core areas, one of which is competition law, and only employs experienced lawyers, to ensure that the advice provided is of the highest quality. Combined, the firm’s competition lawyers have significant previous experience gained through working at leading international and Swedish law firms, the European Commission, the Swedish Competition Authority and the European Court of Justice.

kastelladvokatbyra.se

Bär & Karrer is a renowned Swiss law firm with more than 170 lawyers in Zurich, Geneva, Lugano and Zug. Bär & Karrer advises corporate clients from a broad range of industries. The firm unites specialists from across all practice areas un-der one roof, which allows working highly efficiently on multi-facetted mandates.

Bär & Karrer's competition law team handles all aspects of Swiss competition law:

• Getting merger control approval from the Swiss Competition Commission and coordinating multi-jurisdictional merger control filings.
• Representing and advising clients in investigations before the Swiss Competi-tion Commission and in appeals before the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Supreme Court. Bär & Karrer handles cartel investigations, in-vestigations into the potential abuse of a dominant position and investiga-tions into distribution practices in a broad range of industries.
• Assisting in dawn raids, in the implementation of compliance programmes and internal investigations.
• Representing clients in competition law related civil litigation before Swiss courts.
• Setting up and administering distribution networks.
• General advice on competition law.

Bär & Karrer's competition law team is recognized as a leading competition law team by various ranking organizations such as Chambers Europe, Legal 500 Hall and Who's Who.

www.baerkarrer.ch

Tsar & Tsai Law Firm is a Taiwan-based partnership engaged in the provision of legal services relating to all aspects of international business transactions.

The firm was founded in 1965 by Ruchin Tsar and Paul C. Tsai, and has since grown to its present size of over 50 attorneys admitted to practice in Taiwan and other jurisdictions. Including a staff of paralegals, accountants, engineers, and other supporting personnel, the firm currently employs a total of over 135 persons and is one of the largest law firms in Taiwan.

The firm has maintained a diverse, international character. Although the majority of its attorneys are Taiwan nationals, most of them have received legal education and training in the United States, Japan and elsewhere abroad. All attorneys of the firm are fluent in Chinese and English and several are fluent in Japanese.

Furthermore, the firm prides itself on creative problem-solving and providing strategic advice to its clients. The firm offers a full range of legal services and specializes in several areas, including

• Antitrust
• Banking and Finance
• Construction and Government Procurement
• Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions
• Employment and Labor Relations
• Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts
• Foreign Investment
• Insurance
• Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution
• Securities and Capital Market
• Telecommunications/Information Technology
• Trade and Export/Import Administration

The Fair Trade Act has been enforced in Taiwan for over a decade. The firm has accumulated the best capability and experience in handling and advising cases in this area. The firm has vast experience in handling cases relating to merger filing, abuse of dominance, cartel, vertical restraint, unfair competition, and interface between intellectual property rights and the Fair Trade Act. The firm is also well-known for its experience in handling disputes before government agencies and courts.

The firm is a leader in the development of antitrust law in Taiwan. Regarding the interface between intellectual property law and antitrust law, the firm represented local CDR manufacturers to file the first-of-its-kind complaint in Taiwan against Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden for abusing their dominant power in intellectual property rights. Also, the firm represented a local mobile manufacturer to file the first-of-its-kind complaint in Taiwan against InterDigital for abusing its dominant power in standards essential patents. Regarding cartels, the firm successfully represented a foreign client to prevail in an appeal against the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission’s first cross-border cartel decision (also the first leniency case) and won the Supreme Administrative Court’s judgment to revoke such decision. Also, the firm has filed most of the leniency applications in Taiwan.

The firm has been active in both international and local antitrust communities. Matt Liu, an antitrust partner of the firm, is currently a non-governmental advisor of the International Competition Network and the Chair of the Competition Committee, Taipei Bar Association. He was selected by Global Competition Review to be included in “Who’s Who Legal – Competition: Future Leader” in 2017 and 2018.

Being a leading antitrust law firm in Taiwan, the firm won the following awards in 2018 and 2019:

• “Taiwan elite firm - 2019” by the Global Competition Review
• “Antitrust Law Firm of the Year in Taiwan - 2019” by Global Law Experts Annual Awards
• “Competition Law Firm of the Year in Taiwan - 2018” by Global Business Insight Awards

www.tsartsai.com.tw

Kelvin Chia (Thailand) Co Ltd is the Thailand extension of Kelvin Chia Partnership’s regional practice and serves as the full-service local practice of well-seasoned lawyers with significant experience in Thailand-bound work, outbound work from Thailand, and multi-jurisdictional work involving Thailand.

The firm’s practice is often sought-after, first and foremost for advising clients on the prospective or on-going conduct of their businesses in and driving their investments into Thailand, in respect of which the firm’s team has substantive expertise and knowledge, further drawing upon the abundant wealth of transnational and/or multi-jurisdictional legal and business know-how of Kelvin Chia Partnership, which continuously steers the Thai practice. Since the firm regularly deals with complex cross border mergers and acquisitions, the firm has an established team of competition lawyers dedicated to advising and assisting clients in navigating all aspects of competition law compliance. The firm’s services include but are not limited to rendering general advice on competition law matters, advising and assisting clients in securing pre-merger clearances and/or filing post-merger notifications, as the case may be, and conducting competition law compliance trainings and seminars for company officers and employees.

The firm has the advantage of being fully functional in a wide variety of languages apart from English and Thai, including Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Bahasa Indonesia, Vietnamese, Burmese, Khmer and Filipino. In particular, Kelvin Chia Partnership has Japanese, Chinese and Korean teams who are able to actively assist clients from Japanese, Chinese and Korean-speaking jurisdictions as they venture into Thailand, facilitating the bridging of languages towards effective legal assistance/services.

In sum, the firm brings together international expertise and local reach with an established network of offices in the region. The firm’s cultural fluency – built on deep local roots and strong relationships – ensures a seamless service across multi-jurisdictional legal processes.

www.kcpartnership.com

M. Hamel-Smith & Co. is recognised as one of the leading law firms in Trinidad & Tobago. The firm was founded in 1909 and celebrates over 110 years of doing business with both local and international clients. Hamel-Smith is also the exclusive member firm in Trinidad & Tobago for Lex Mundi, the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience in 125+ countries worldwide.

The firm advises on a broad range of commercial transactions and has extensive experience dealing with cross-border matters. The firm offers a variety of services across all practice areas relevant to its clients including on many complex transactions such mergers and acquisitions, merger control, capital markets, banking & finance and other general corporate commercial and business transactions.

With the Fair Trading Act coming into force in February 2020, the firm’s Merger Control practice has quickly become the go-to resource for many international players as well as their top international law firms advising on merger control regulations and assisting with merger control filings. Hamel-Smith interfaces closely with the local industry players and the Trinidad and Tobago Fair Trading Commission to keep abreast of changes in the local requirements and has streamlined the approach to help expedite the filing process while working to keep client’s sensitive commercial information and business secrets secure.

The firm prides itself on its commitment to understanding the business of its clients and to providing practical solutions which achieve its clients’ objectives. The quality of Hamel-Smith’s lawyers and service is independently confirmed by Chambers Global which has consistently ranked Hamel-Smith in Band#1 in Trinidad and Tobago.

http://trinidadlaw.com/practice-groups/#mergerspractice

ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law is committed to providing its clients with high-quality legal services. The firm combines a solid knowledge of Turkish law with a business-minded approach to develop legal solutions that meet the ever-changing needs of its clients in their international and domestic operations. The competition law and regulatory department is led by the founding partner, Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, along with four partners, nine counsel and 40 associates.

In addition to unparalleled experience in merger control issues, ELIG Gürkaynak has vast experience in defending companies before the Turkish Competition Board in all phases of antitrust investigations, abuse of dominant position cases, leniency handlings, and before courts on issues of private enforcement of competition law, along with appeals of the administrative decisions of the Turkish Competition Authority.

ELIG Gürkaynak represents multinational corporations, business associations, investment banks, partnerships and individuals in the widest variety of competition law matters, while also collaborating with many international law firms. During the past year, ELIG Gürkaynak has been involved in over 85 merger clearances by the Turkish Competition Authority, more than 35 defence projects in investigations, and over 15 antitrust appeals before the administrative courts. ELIG Gürkaynak also provided more than 75 antitrust education seminars to employees of its clients.

ELIG Gürkaynak has an in-depth knowledge of representing defendants and complainants in complex antitrust investigations concerning all forms of abuse of dominant position allegations, and all forms of restrictive horizontal and/or vertical arrangements, including price-fixing, retail price maintenance, refusal to supply, territorial restrictions and concerted practice allegations.

In addition to significant antitrust litigation expertise, the firm has considerable expertise in administrative law, and is well equipped to represent clients before the High State Court, both on the merits of a case and for injunctive relief. ELIG Gürkaynak also advises clients on a day-to-day basis in a wide range of business transactions that almost always contain antitrust law issues, including distributorship, licensing, franchising and toll manufacturing issues.

www.elig.com

AEQUO is an advanced industry-focused Ukrainian law firm made up of highly qualified, internationally recommended lawyers who work proactively to help their clients reach their business goals. Backed up by solid industry expertise and a thorough understanding of business, the firm develops innovative strategies and provides efficient solutions to the most complex and challenging matters.

AEQUO provides integrated legal support in areas such as antitrust and competition, banking and finance law, intellectual property, corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, taxation, litigation and international arbitration, and capital markets.

The list of AEQUO’s representative clients includes leading Ukrainian and international companies and organizations, such as Agroprosperis, Apax Partners, Apollo, Bunge, DuPont, EBRD, European Commission, Google, Inditex Group, NCH Capital, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Samsung Electronics, Sandvik, Synthon, Tetra Laval, Ukrainian Redevelopment Fund, UniCredit Group, Vodafone Ukraine etc.

AEQUO has been named the Most Innovative Law Firm of the Year in Ukraine by IFLR Europe Awards 2018, Law Firm of the Year in Russia, Ukraine and the CIS by The Lawyer European Awards 2017 and one of the most innovative law firms in Europe according to the FT Innovative Lawyers 2015-2018.

aequo.ua

Goodwin excels at complex transactions, high-stakes litigation and world-class advisory services in the technology, life sciences, real estate, private equity, and financial industries. The firm’s unique combination of deep experience serving both the innovators and investors in a rapidly changing, technology-driven economy sets it apart.

Goodwin’s Antitrust + Competition team has successfully advised on 2,700+ transactions – from the largest Fortune 500 companies to emerging growth companies – before U.S. and international antitrust agencies. In 2019 alone, they filed more than 100 Hart-Scott-Rodino Notification and Report Forms on behalf of clients across all major industries. The team has successfully defended hundreds of matters through the Second Request process or other intensive government investigations. Each transaction poses unique challenges, and the team understand the clients’ business in such a way that they can quickly and efficiently explain the procompetitive benefits of any transaction to antitrust and competition enforcers. Success is measured by one key motivation: keeping clients out of the news and securing clearance.

The philosophy of the team is that clients should never be surprised. Just because a deal presents substantive antitrust risk does not mean it is DOA. But there are certainly some deals that present legitimate questions that the antitrust agencies will want to probe deeply. Goodwin ascertains that clients appreciate those risks – in advance – and that chances for successful clearance from the applicable antitrust authority are maximized thorough a coordinated and holistic strategy.

Goodwinlaw.com

Rajah & Tann LCT Lawyers is a full service law firm and is among Vietnam’s most prominent legal advisors, representing a wide range of multinational and domestic clients on a variety of business and investment matters.

With practice groups spanning all areas from banking and finance to litigation and tax, the firm has gained a reputation for providing comprehensive, high-quality legal service to an international and local client base. The firm has distinguished itself as one of Vietnam’s most committed and client-responsive firms and developed strategic partnerships with Vietnamese authorities and leading legal experts in Asia.

Rajah & Tann LCT Lawyers’ competition practice combines technical expertise with strategic advice to assist clients with competition law compliance: advising and assisting clients in merger assessment and notification with the authorities, advising competition issues in contracts, assisting with competition audits and trainings.

Rajah & Tann LCT Lawyers has provided opinions and technical assistance on the enforcement of Competition Law and on the proposals of new regulations and guidelines to implement the Competition Law.

https://vn.rajahtannasia.com/