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Avramopoulos & Partners has extensive experience in assisting clients in complying with the competition laws of the European Union, providing comprehensive advice across a broad spectrum of competition issues. We advise on multiple aspects of EU and Greek competition law, and assist clients with respect to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. Our firm places great importance on understanding our clients' businesses and the practical and commercial implications of competition matters in their specific industries.
Our attorneys provide a range of competition services, including transaction counselling, notification and defense; representation in cartel investigations; counselling with regard to technology licensing, pricing and distribution arrangements; advising and representing clients on contentious matters, including EU and Member State litigation, arbitration and mediation; advice and representation on State aid and public procurement, and representing clients in government investigations and agency complaints.
Counselling
We provide our clients with a full range of counselling on competition law issues in the areas of mergers, joint ventures, distribution issues and licensing. Our attorneys regularly counsel clients on the various laws applicable to contractual and structural joint ventures, guiding clients through maze of divergent distribution regulations, advising clients on competitive issues in technology and intellectual property licensing, and leading clients through the notification processes for approval of such arrangements.
Mergers notification and review
Our attorneys have extensive experience with multinational mergers and the notification process for such mergers. We analyze proposed multinational transactions and advise clients on the likely substantive treatment of mergers in various jurisdictions, organize and execute the notification process throughout the world for large multinational transactions, and defend transactions that receive additional scrutiny in various jurisdictions.
Complaints, Oppositions and Contentious Proceedings
We advise on a wide array of contentious competition matters, including:
- oppositions to adverse transactions.
- international arbitration and litigation proceedings involving complaints or defenses under European competition law.
- complaints involving restrictive agreements, or dominant behavior by competitors
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