Competition, Regulation & Trade
Issues of competition and regulation have an ever-increasing impact on business strategy throughout the global economy, and Taylor Wessing is strongly placed to deliver high-quality advice to clients across this diverse field.
Consistently recommended in the leading independent guides to law firms, our Competition, Regulation & Trade Group has experienced lawyers based in Brussels, London, Paris and each of our German offices.
Areas of Expertise
- Competition (antitrust) investigations and complaints
- Competition compliance
- Competition disputes
- Competition rules and commercial agreements
- Competition rules, licensing and intellectual property
- Customs, trade and the WTO
- EU and internal market
- EU and national merger control
- Regulation in the EU
- Rules on public and utilities contracts
- State aid
As an international firm, we are experienced in the law and policies of European and international institutions and their increasingly widespread role in directing commercial life.
In particular, we have developed a pool of expertise in technology-rich industry sectors such as communications, information technology and life sciences, where we have acted in some of the most significant cases of recent years.
We take pride in our partner-driven approach, which provides creative, client-focused solutions to real commercial problems. Members of our competition, regulation and trade group not only have a detailed understanding of the relevant national and international rules in this area, but also a practical and innovative approach, which delivers results through understanding and application.
In addition to advice on the application of competition rules to commercial arrangements, the group also offers guidance on the strategic use of such rules and on defence against investigation by competition authorities.