Competition

Who We Are

Our competition practice is focused on helping clients in cartel investigations, claims against clients arising from alleged abuse of dominance and compliance with existing competition law. Our merger clearance team is notorious for doing almost magic. We eagerly represent clients against the Competition Authority, including litigation against unfavourable decisions.

Practice In Detail
  • Abuse of Dominance
  • Anti-Competitive Behaviour
  • Cartel Investigation
  • Competition Litigation
  • Compliance
  • Dawn Raids
  • Horizontal and Vertical Agreements
  • Information Exchange
  • International Trade
  • Joint Ventures
  • Merger Control
  • Public-Procurement
  • State Aid
  • Tenders
Clients
  • AirBaltic
  • BAO
  • Cido Grupa
  • Citco
  • City Energy
  • Conexus Baltic Grid
  • Decathlon
  • Deep White
  • ENC Latvia
  • Firma Madara 89
  • Iepirkumu grupa
  • If P&C Insurance
  • KW Bruun Baltic
  • Latvijas Mobilais Telefons
  • Latvijas Pārtikas tirgotāju asociācija
  • Moller Baltic Import
  • Narvesen
  • RCI Gulbene
  • RIMI
  • Specprojekts
  • Trelleborg Holding
  • Triangel
  • Valdemara Holding
  • Wingo Deposit
  • Zaļā josta

Team

Experience

Representing VW dealers in several follow-on antitrust damages litigations.

Legal assistance to RIMI Latvia SIA with the national competition authority’s draft guidelines on sanctions within the legal relations between retailers and suppliers.

Representing Merks SIA, a leading construction and development company in Latvia, in the appeal against the Latvian Competition Council’s decision concerning an alleged cartel in the construction industry, imposing fines on 10 entities exceeding EUR 16 million.

Providing competition compliance training to a leading car retailer in the Baltic states.

Advising Latvijas valsts meži (Latvian State Forests), a contracting authority, on both the application of Latvian and EU public procurement procedural rules during a tender procedure.

Assistance to a waste management company concerning market investigation by the Competition Council.

Assisting Rimi Latvia with the adapting of its agreements and the standard practices to the new rules of the Unfair Trading Practices Prohibition Law, which transposes the provisions of the Directive 2019/633.

Representing a truck haulage company in antitrust damages litigation case against the Volvo Group based on the European Commission’s Trucks cartel decision.

Advising Latvijas autoceļu uzturētājs on the opening up of the road maintenance market in Latvia.

Advising Egis Rail SA in connection with an agreement concluded with Rail Baltica, as well as agreements with subcontractors and joint venture partners

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