Practice Areas
Competition & Antitrust
Overview
Our competition and antitrust practice focuses on contentious, advisory and regulatory matters under Greek and EU competition law.We represent Greek and international companies, directors and stakeholders in competition investigations, appeals of Hellenic Competition Commission decisions, private damages actions and related commercial disputes before the Greek courts.
We are particularly active where competition law intersects with contentious business relationships: distribution and franchise networks, agency and supply arrangements, pricing practices, exclusivity, information exchange, termination disputes, shareholder conflicts and claims arising from alleged anti-competitive conduct. These matters require more than technical competition analysis. They require litigation judgment, commercial context and a clear view of how regulatory risk may affect the wider business relationship.
We advise clients on investigations and enforcement proceedings involving alleged cartel conduct, vertical restraints, abuse of dominance and anti-competitive commercial practices. We also support clients in responding to requests for information, dawn raids, settlement discussions, procedural challenges and appeals of Hellenic Competition Commission decisions.
Private competition litigation is becoming a more visible feature of the Greek market, particularly in follow-on and stand-alone damages actions. We advise claimants and defendants on the procedural, evidential and damages issues that arise in these cases, including standing, causation, quantification and pass-on.
On the advisory side, we counsel manufacturers and distributors on the competition aspects of their commercial networks – block-exemption compliance, selective and exclusive distribution structures, and pricing and territorial restrictions – helping clients design arrangements that are commercially effective and defensible under Greek and EU competition rules.
Services
We represent companies, directors and other stakeholders in investigations and enforcement proceedings before the Hellenic Competition Commission. Our work includes matters involving alleged cartel conduct, vertical restraints, abuse of dominance and other anti-competitive practices, from requests for information and dawn raids through submissions, oral hearings, procedural challenges, settlement discussions and final decisions.
We act in appeals of Hellenic Competition Commission decisions before the competent Greek administrative courts, including challenges based on substantive competition law, procedure, evidence, proportionality and penalty assessment. We also advise claimants and defendants in follow-on and stand-alone damages actions before the Greek courts, where issues of causation, limitation, quantification, pass-on and reliance on regulatory findings often determine the strategy.
We advise manufacturers, importers, distributors, franchisors and retailers on competition-law issues affecting commercial networks. Our work covers selective and exclusive distribution, agency structures, resale pricing, territorial restrictions, online sales, customer allocation, non-compete obligations, termination issues and block-exemption compliance.
We advise on competition-law issues arising from joint ventures, strategic alliances, purchasing arrangements, cooperation agreements, data sharing, benchmarking, industry participation and information exchange. We help clients identify and manage competition risk at the structuring and implementation stages.
We advise on State aid and public-support issues in transactions, projects, restructurings, public contracts and regulated sectors. Our work includes identifying State aid risk, assessing compatibility concerns, advising on recovery exposure and supporting clients where public funding, guarantees, incentives or other forms of State support may affect the legality, structure or timing of a project or transaction.
Featured Work
- Represented ELFE S.A. in antitrust and unfair competition proceedings against DEPA S.A. (the former Greek gas monopoly), including a Supreme Court appeal — one of Greece’s significant competition disputes in the energy sector.
- Represented ELFE S.A. in abuse-of-dominance proceedings against PPC S.A. (the dominant electricity supplier) in the industrial electricity market.
- Acted for Nea Karvali Fertilizers S.A. in antitrust damages claims against PPC S.A. for abuse of dominant position in industrial electricity supply.
- Acted for Kavala Fertilizers Ltd in antitrust proceedings against PPC S.A. for abuse of dominance in industrial electricity supply (2020–2022).
- Advised Toyota Hellas S.A. on competition and consumer law matters, including implementation of block-exemption directives for the Greek automotive distribution network.
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