Competition/Anti-Trust Law

Our team is renowned for providing the highest quality advice on all aspects of competition law. We take a proactive commercial approach to competition law issues and are consistently recognised as the stand-out competition practice in Ireland. We also work side-by-side with our clients to help them to adopt and implement robust competition law compliance programmes.

We advise our clients on a wide range of competition law matters including:

  • Compliance with competition law
  • Pricing issues
  • Cartels
  • Abuse of dominance issues
  • Competition law dawn raids
  • Competition issues relating to all aspects of business agreements
  • Complaints to the national and the EU competition agencies
  • Parallel trade
  • Refusals to supply

Experience

  • Dawn Raids

    with a number of clients that have been the subject of dawn raids by the Irish competition agency (the CCPC), the European Commission and national regulators from other EU Member States.

  • Motor Insurance Investigation

    clients in the CCPC's ongoing investigation into motor insurance in Ireland.

  • Private Competition Actions

    Man Truck in the largest private competition law damages action ever in Ireland.

  • Novel Competition Solutions

    Telefónica O2 Ireland in conceiving, structuring and executing Ireland's first ever network share agreement with eircom in relation to its Meteor mobile arm.

  • The Major Banks and Insurers

    in acquisitions and competition law issues.

  • Cartel Immunity Applicants

    clients who apply for immunity in relation to cartel investigations.