Antitrust, Competition and Trade

The CMS Antitrust, Competition and Trade (ACT) group in Romania is part of the fully integrated CMS global team, one of the largest specialist competition and trade teams in the world. More than 225 CMS experts advise clients in over 40 countries worldwide on all ACT matters.

Due to our size, in-depth knowledge of the local market as well as of the practice of the Romanian competition authority, the cross-sectoral expertise and the ability to bring resources from across CMS offices, we are able to deal with all ACT matters irrespective of their geographic dimension. Where necessary, we cooperate with long established contacts from our wider network of law firms all over the world.

We advise on the full range of Antitrust, Competition and Trade matters, and we have a successful track record in representing clients before national authorities and courts, as well as the European Commission. We have expert sub-groups specialising in specific areas within the wider competition and trade field, e.g. cartels, horizontal and vertical restraints, abuse of dominance, merger control, State Aid, FDI/Foreign Direct Investments, unfair trading practices (e.g. in the agricultural sector and food industry), and related areas such as platform regulation, litigation matters, public procurement and consumer protection. We are also well-known as experts in various sectors of the economy: manufacturing, automotive, agriculture, consumer products/FMCG, construction, digital economy, energy/oil & gas, financial services, life sciences, real estate, telecommunications/media and technology, transport to name but a few.

Our clients range from many very large multinationals, which frequently use our team as their ACT law firm of choice for the entire region (e.g., in Europe or CEE), to governments at all levels and a large number of medium-sized companies.

We use the most up-to-date technical and AI tools to support our business in Romania and abroad.

We hold a renowned annual EU competition law conference that has become a feature in the Brussels calendar. We put out regular case law updates on Romanian, European and international competition and trade developments on our Law Now service. In addition, a management committee of partners and a group of associates help to keep us innovating to better serve clients.

We cover every area of Antitrust, Competition and Trade law—internationally and on the Romanian market.

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Abuse of dominance

Competitive conduct by companies with a strong market position is subject to increasing scrutiny and may lead to unwanted regulatory intervention, hig

Competition and cartel investigations

Companies should be aware of the possibility of investigations and fines for anti-competitive behaviour. We defend our clients in cartel and other reg

Compliance

We regularly advise multinational groups on the implementation of compliance programmes across multiple jurisdictions in Europe and beyond, as well as

Consumer protection

Monitoring consumer protection has been one of the priorities of the European Commission and the Romanian consumer protection authority (the National

Digital markets

CMS is widely recognised as a leader in advising technology, media and communications companies avoid regulatory risks and seize opportunities to supp

Foreign direct investment

Our multijurisdictional footprint, with CMS offices in Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, and South America, allows us to offer a one-stop-shop soluti

Foreign subsidies control

The EU intends to extend State aid control to the support of businesses provided by non-EU governments. This new field of law will apply across all EU

General EU law, free movement of goods, services and capital

With our highly specialised expertise in general European law, based both in Brussels as well as at the national level through skilled and experienced

Horizontal agreements

Our expertise covers the full range of horizontal cooperation and coordination between companies (joint ventures, specialisation, joint production, jo

Merger Control

We have a long and extensive track record of advising clients on merger control requirements and representing them in merger control proceedings. Each

Private enforcement

The CMS team acts for claimants and defendants in all competition-related private enforcement matters, providing a perfect blend of expertise for comp

Regulatory

Companies in regulated industries are under constant scrutiny over anti-competitive behaviour. With our in-depth sector specific competition law exper

State aid and EU subsidies

State aid is a constantly developing field of law. The EU and its Member States, as well as governments across the globe have introduced or are about

Trade law and sanctions

In an increasingly challenging international business world, we help companies remain compliant and keep supply chains moving. With export control and

Unfair competition

Potential civil law claims related to acts of unfair competition may involve competition-related private enforcement resulting from anticompetitive ag

Unfair trading practices (UTP)

We are at the forefront of advising clients in the field of unfair trading practices which is a relatively new field of law in many countries, includi

Vertical agreements

We advise clients on their relationships with suppliers, resellers and customers, online and offline. We review their distribution systems, pricing an

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