EU/EEA & Competition Law - Simonsen

EEA/EU Competition law 

Our team on EU/EEA & Competition Law has extensive experience in advising on international and national mergers. SIMONSEN also regularly represents clients in complaints and in investigations by the Competition Authorities.

Our assistance is typically rendered within:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures
• Distribution agreements
• Franchising agreements
• Co-operation agreements
• Licensing
• Technology transfer agreements
• Compliance programs
• Dawn-raid routines and assistance in dawn raids
• Market analysis and assessment of dominant positions
• Litigation

SIMONSEN also provides advice to authorities, companies and trade associations in relation to internal market issues (the rights of free movement of goods, services, persons and capital under the EEA Agreement).

Public Procurement

Our team regularly assists both public and private clients in public procurement issues. SIMONSEN has advised on major projects across different sectors, inter alia within Technology and Media, Oil & Gas and Defence industries.

State Aid

State aid may consist of various public support measures, such as tax exemptions, loans on preferential terms, state guarantees and investments in share capital made by the authorities on terms that would not be acceptable to a private investor. SIMONSEN provides advice both to public authorities and private businesses on the compatibility of support measures with the EEA-Agreement.