Eversheds International

Retail

International competition considerations

As the competition authorities take an increasingly joined up approach to competition law and consumer protection, the prospects of sector and market investigation for retailers continue to rise.

We have advised on a number of EU sectoral investigations and over half of the market investigations conducted by the UK Competition Commission over the past five years, developing strategic plans for handling the inquiries and making sure our clients are familiar with the issues, the way the regulators think and the procedures they adopt.

Through proactive training we can help you to feel confident that your buyers know where the line is crossed between legitimate and non-legitimate exchange of information, and so enable you to maintain competition compliance. In the event of 'system failure' we are able to bring our deep expertise and experience in competition investigations to the fore.

We have also advised a number of clients facing merger control or antitrust issues in China, where the legal landscape continues to evolve very rapidly.