Competition & EU
Our team holds extensive experience and knowledge in all aspects of competition law and market regulation as well as in EU law.
We have been involved in some of the most important and widely publicized cases involving the application of competition rules in Portugal and have contributed to the implementation and follow-up of competition compliance programmes designed to avoid the risk of violation of the applicable legislation and to provide guidance to companies.
With regard to competition and regulation practice we have handled many cases and have provided legal advice - involving litigation and non-litigation issues - on a number of matters relevant to the business activity namely:
- agreements between undertakings that are restrictive of competition, abuses of a dominant position, abuses of economic dependence, mergers and State aid, including private enforcement
- issues raised by the liberalisation and deregulation of markets (e.g. electronic communications, postal services, energy and transportation)
In what regards EU law, our legal counseling covers institutional matters as well as procedural issues relating to the free movement of goods, entities, services and capital including, in general, matters concerning the harmonisation of national legislations.
