EU & Competition Law

Every business needs to comply with the developing requirements of the EU, especially antitrust law and close attention has to be paid on its effects to major transactions. When covering Commercial, Corporate law and M&A, Property and Construction law, Banking & Finance, IP/IT, Public Law, we keep in view all aspects of Hungarian and EU legislation and inform our clients thereon.

Our team, specialized in European and Competition Law, provides legal counselling in relation to issues related to European Law, especially competition and merger-control for both Hungarian and international companies. Furthermore, we provide our clients with legal counselling on matters in connection with free movement of goods, services, capital and people and parallel import. We inform our client on regulatory developments and the impact on new legislation which might have an affect on their business. We advise our clients how best to structure their transactions to avoid breaking the rules.

We have a very strong practice in Central Europe, with specialist competition lawyers in Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. Our law firm and our colleagues from the European Law Department in Brussels have in-depth experience in implementing Hungarian, German and European Competition Law in connection with contracts, especially cooperation agreements and with the review of abuse of a dominant position and merger-control. We represent our clients together with our colleagues of the European Law Department in front of authorities including the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance. Besides the above areas, we provide our clients comprehensive legal counselling regarding directives and regulations in conjunction with Hungarian law. In addition, we provide monitoring services to keep our clients informed of developments inside the European Union that might affect their commercial interests.