Competition / Antitrust
Increased competition, free flow of goods and services and minimal trade barriers have added importance to issues of competition/anti-trust laws. The team possesses cross-disciplinary expertise in law, accountancy and economics for advising as well as rendering litigation support on issues of competition law to both domestic and global companies with regard to anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, global mergers and acquisitions.
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The team has successfully represented the maximum number of cartel, bid rigging cases in India including filing of leniency applications, merger control filings, economic and competitive analysis of combinations, transactional advisory on merger review process; and regulatory filings before the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
We have advised and successfully represented procurers and suppliers alike in competition law issues arising in tenders for award of supplies and services contracts.
We regularly undertake competition compliance programmes and train executives on antitrust risk management including dawn-raid.
The team spends a considerable amount of time and effort in understanding sector specific issues based on clients’ needs. We regularly participate in events and contribute to several reputed journals on matters of Indian competition law and policy. Our team regularly appears before the Director-General (DG) during investigation, CCI during inquiry, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in appeals and before the High Court / Supreme Court.