Antitrust, Competition & Trade Law Firm in Slovakia

The CMS Antitrust, Competition and Trade (ACT) group is one of the largest specialist competition and trade teams in the world. More than 225 CMS professionals advise clients in over 40 countries on all ACT matters. 

Due to our size and wide reach, we are able to deal with all ACT matters regardless of their location. Where appropriate, we work with long-standing contacts from our wider network of law firms anywhere in the world.

We are specialists in the full range of antitrust, competition and trade matters. In the last three years alone, we have advised clients in more than 750 competition and trade-related proceedings. We have specialist sub-groups that specializing in particular areas within the broader competition and trade area, e.g. state aid and foreign direct investment/foreign investment control. We are also known as experts in various sectors of the economy. Our renowned sector specialisation encompasses automotive, consumer products/FMCG, construction, digital economy, energy/oil & gas, life sciences, telecommunications/media and transport to name but a few.

Our clients include many very large multinational companies that often use our team as their ACT law firm for the entire region (e.g. in Europe) as well as public authorities 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.  

Every year we organise a renowned conference on EU competition law, which has become part of the Brussels calendar.  We regularly publish updates on European and international competition and trade case law as part of our Law Now service. Our monthly webinars on EU law feature our in-house lawyers from around the world. Our group is governed not only by a steering committee of partners, but also by an active group of attorneys who serve our clients through innovation.

We cover all areas and matters of antitrust, competition and commercial law, in particular, we advise on: 

• concentrations, notification of concentrations to the Slovak Antimonopoly Office
• competition aspects of commercial contracts
• protection against unfair competition practices 
• internal checks on compliance with EU and Slovak competition rules
• state aid