EU & Competition Law, Compliance, White Collar Crime, Forensic Investigations

We advise on all aspects of European and Polish competition law. The expertise of our EU & competition law team covers also compliance issues, white collar crime and forensic investigations.

Within the transactional advice we:

• assess the obligation to notify a transaction to competition authorities, prepare the merger control notification and lead proceedings as well as negotiate commitments or modifications of the transaction with the authorities
• coordinate multijurisdictional merger control filings outside of Poland thanks to our cooperation with leading competition lawyers in other countries
• review the non-compete clauses which accompany the transaction
• supervise the contacts between the transaction partners to ensure their conformity with the prohibition to implement the transaction pending the merger control clearance

The non-transaction advice covers:

• appraisal of agreements and other business plans under competition law
• compliance trainings on competition law and anticorruption regulations
• drafting of tailor-made compliance programs and their implementation
• mock dawn raids
• compliance audits also with the usage of modern forensic tools, including identification of risks and their assessment, implementation of remedies
• estimation of potential fines

Moreover our litigation advise covers:

• drafting and submission of written and oral leniency applications
• support during dawn raids by competition authorities
• involvement in proceedings of enforcement agencies in relation to infringements of anticorruption regulations
• defending undertakings before competition authorities and courts
• private enforcement of competition law claims