Competition and Merger Control

Our team acts for both complainants and defendants in competition proceedings before the Bulgarian Protection of Competition. We advise industry clients on both EU and Bulgarian competition law practice. Some of our work includes advice on:

• establishing and maintaining antitrust compliance procedures
• avoiding prohibited conducts such as: direct or indirect price fixing, sharing markets or sources of supply, limiting or controlling production, etc.
• agreements (horizontal and vertical agreements, cartels) aimed at establishing the above conducts
• pricing by companies with strong market positions
• concerted practices and decisions between undertakings
• exemptions from the prohibition and the application of “de minimis” rule under the Bulgarian antitrust law
• liability for participation in prohibited agreements, decisions or concerted practices in Bulgaria
• monopoly and dominant position regulations

Merger Control

Our merger control practice is focused on competition and regulatory aspects of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. In particular our work has emphasis on:

• EU and Bulgarian merger control regulations and concentration of undertakings
• circumstances relevant to the existence of concentration in Bulgaria
• concentration as a result of merger or takeover of two or more undertakings
• circumstances under which concentrations shall not be deemed to arise
• regulatory bodies that must be notified in case of a concentration
• concentrations with national dimension
• concentrations with a Community dimension