Competition & Antitrust

In an increasingly borderless business environment, competition laws and regulations are an important part of a cohesive business strategy in all phases of the business cycle. In addition, as competition regulators across the globe increasingly impose substantial fines for anti-competitive behaviours, businesses are paying close attention to risks of financial and reputational harm that could result from any such decisions. At WH Partners we support our clients on a broad range of competition issues, and our lawyers have experience with dialogues, filings, and investigations before national competition authorities.

We have experience in advising on the competition and regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions in Malta, Italy, Romania and Poland both under domestic and European Union competition law.

Due to the international dimension of a lot of the deals we work on, we provide legal expertise and strategic oversight and coordination of complex multi-jurisdictional merger control filings, with the support of our international networks.

We also advise on non-transactional and compliance support on competition and antitrust law matters involving abuse of a dominant position, restrictive practices cartels, exclusivity and distribution arrangements, joint ventures, consumer protection regulation, unfair trading practices, dawn raids, as well as state aid, trade and economic sanctions and foreign direct investment (FDI) regulation.