Competition/European Law
Europe Guide 2024 : Portugal
Band 4
Email address
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Provided by Abreu Advogados
Our team has extensive experience, rated, in fact, as one of the most experienced at the technical and academic level, in advisory services in the area of competition, regulation and European law.
The services we provide:
Competition
- Assessment and prevention of restrictive agreements, concerted practices and decisions of association of undertakings.
- Advising on mergers, acquisitions and creation of joint ventures, within merger control files before the Competition Authority and the European Commission.
- Advice and representation before the Competition Authority and the European Union and courts, in matters concerning sector inquiries and cartel related procedures, including leniency applications.
- Review of distribution, licensing and cooperation agreements, pricing policy as well as guidelines adopted by industrial or commercial associations of undertakings.
- Development of compliance programmes.
- Assessment, advice and representation of Clients in respect of of State Aid matters.
European Union
- Advising on the internal market rules – free movement of goods, services, capital and people.
- Advising in the context of the European Union sector policies (policies on agriculture, information society and media, economy and finance, international industry and trade) and harmonization of national legislation.
- Within the scope of European Union litigation, representing Clients before the European Courts.
Chambers Review
Abreu Advogados often assists clients with merger control filings and with competition compliance matters. The law firm also has experience in contentious mandates, defending clients in PCA investigations and representing them in sector inquiries and state aid disputes.
Work Highlights
- Abreu Advogados advised Mutares on the competition law aspects of its proposed acquisition of EFACEC.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team's knowledge is based on long experience of similar cases."
"The team is on top of the matters and takes the lead in proposing several steps."
"It is a very solid team that fights for the clients."
"The lawyers deal with things in a quick and efficient manner."
"The detailed and meticulous approach gives us the confidence that our complex legal issues are in good hands."
"The team's knowledge is based on long experience of similar cases."
"The team is on top of the matters and takes the lead in proposing several steps."
"It is a very solid team that fights for the clients."
"The lawyers deal with things in a quick and efficient manner."
"The detailed and meticulous approach gives us the confidence that our complex legal issues are in good hands."
Notable Practitioners
Armando Martins Ferreira often assists clients with competition law compliance mandates. He further advises on merger control filings, as well as behavioural investigations and market inquiries.
"He is knowledgeable and client-centred."
"Armando Martins Ferreira is a very good lawyer and is very experienced."
"He was very aware strategically."
Inês Sequeira Mendes often assists clients with merger clearance filings. She has further experience in contentious state aid matters.
Ranked Lawyers at
Abreu Advogados
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