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
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.
May 28, 2021
Assistance to a waste management company concerning market investigation by the Competition Council.
May 24, 2021
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.
March 31, 2021
Representing a truck haulage company in antitrust damages litigation case against the Volvo Group based on the European Commission’s Trucks cartel decision.
December 11, 2020
Advising Latvijas autoceļu uzturētājs on the opening up of the road maintenance market in Latvia.
November 18, 2020
Advising Egis Rail SA in connection with an agreement concluded with Rail Baltica, as well as agreements with subcontractors and joint venture partners
October 2, 2020
Advising major parcel delivery service providers (Omniva, Venipak, DPD, Itella) to oppose a newly introduced levy for financing the dominant postal services provider.
September 18, 2020
Competition Law compliance guidelines for Merks management and employees.
May 27, 2020
Advising a leading retail chain in the Baltics on the EU competition aspects of a proposed joint purchasing agreement.
May 12, 2020
Conducting a competition training for the management and employees of a major construction company.
November 6, 2019