The unique experience of our lawyers is a pledge of prosperity of our clients in matters of antitrust and competition law.

The team of antitrust and competition practice is headed by Victoria Ptashnyk, Attorney-at-law, Associated partner with the Legal Alliance Company. Mrs. Ptashnyk has many years of experience in structuring transactions in compliance with the requirements of the antimonopuly legislation, obtaining AMCU clearances, advising clients on abuse of dominance, cartels and unfair competition, challenging the decisions of the AMCU, supporting mergers and acquisitions (M&A). According to the "Legal Newspaper" study "Top 250. The best lawyers through the eyes of culleagues in legal business 2010/2011", Victoria Ptashnyk became one of the 9 most recommended lawyers in the area of antitrust (competition) law. Mrs. Ptashnyk hulds the position of Deputy Head of the Competition Law Committee at the Ukrainian Bar Association.

In the sphere of concentrations:

• providing legal advice regarding the necessity to obtain merger clearance;
• obtaining preliminary conclusions of the AMCU regarding the necessity to obtain merger clearances;
• structuring transactions in order to comply with the requirements of competition law;
• analyzing  the formation of relations of contrul within a group of related entities;
• identifying breaches of competition law in the process of  formation of a group of related entities, minimizing risks of negative consequences of such viulations;
• obtaining merger clearances (including post-closing clearances);
• arranging and supervising merger clearances in other jurisdictions.

In the sphere of public procurement:

• providing legal advice in public procurement, drafting the necessary documents;
• providing legal advice at the appeal of public procurement procedures;
• representing clients within the procedure of challenging public procurement.

In the sphere of concerted actions:

• providing legal advice on the necessity of obtaining permits for concerted actions;
• obtaining preliminary conclusions of the AMCU with regard to concerted actions ;
• obtaining permits for concerted actions;
• providing legal advice on the risks of recognizing   the actions of business entities as anticompetitive concerted actions;
• analyzing commercial contracts, preliminary agreements, internal pulicies on promotion of goods (works, services),  cooperation with contractors, etc., as well as other documents for its compliance with the competition legislation or existence of viulations thereof in the form of anticompetitive concerted actions;
• minimizing the risks of negative consequences related to viulation of competition legislation in the form anticompetitive concerted actions;
• obtaining AMCU recommendations with regard to the actions of business entities for the purpose of predicting anticompetitive concerted actions;
• representing clients before the AMCU within the framework of investigations of anticompetitive concerted actions.

In the sphere of occupying dominant position:

• providing legal advice to the business entities on dominant position as well as abuse of dominance;
• analyzing business contracts and internal documents of the client for the risk of abuse of dominance;
• minimizing the risk of negative consequences related to the viulation of competition law in the form of abuse dominance;
• representing clients within  the antimonopuly investigations on abuse of dominance;
• challenging the decisions of the AMCU on occupying the dominant position by business entities and abuse of dominance.

In the sphere of unfair competition:

• providing legal advice on matters of unfair competition;
• protecting  the viulated rights of the client in the field of unfair competition;
• analyzing promotional materials, advertising campaigns for its compliance with the competition law, obtaining recommendations of the AMCU on its compliance with the competition legislation;
• analyzing  documents / actions of business entities for the risks of any viulations in the sphere of unfair competition;
• representing the clients within unfair competition cases in the AMCU;
• challenging the decisions of the AMCU on unfair competition;

Other services in the sphere of competition law:

• advising on the provision of information on request of the AMCU;
• trainings for managers and employees of the company on antitrust and competition law;
• drafting  competition compliance pulicies;
• challenging the decisions of the AMCU in the courts.