The Firm’s Competition Law practice represents clients across various industries in notifying mergers and acquisition, joint ventures and anti-competitive agreements before the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Our competition Law practice supports clients in achieving their commercial objectives while limiting their risk exposure and ensuring compliance with relevant laws. We assist clients to develop bespoke competition compliance programs to suit the industry and sector in which they operate.

Competition law in the ASEAN region is developing rapidly with a number of countries introducing or strengthening their competition legislative frameworks. Our strong understanding of the local business and regulatory environment enables us to offer clients innovative solutions to difficult and complex regulatory issues promptly and effectively.

We offer general competition law advice pertaining to regulatory and complex issues that our clients face in their vertical and horizontal dealings with distributors, customers, suppliers, contractors and competitors. In particular, we advise on issues related to pricing, exclusive agreements, licensing, loyalty and discount scheme agreements, as well as other commercial arrangements.

We draft merger filings on our clients’ behalf for submission to the CCI. Our practice analyses potential competition law issues in a proposed merger transaction, helping parties in addressing such concerns efficiently. We adopt a holistic approach in assessing competition law risks within the applicable legislative and regulatory framework. We undertake pre-notification discussions and negotiations with the CCI to expedite the merger filing process.