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EU and
Competition

HPP’s EU, Competition and Regulatory law practice group is a leading team in Finland within its field. Our lawyers have extensive experience from both public (Finnish/EU competition/European regulatory authorities) and private sectors. This translates into practical insight into, and approach to, commercial and operational impact of competition and regulatory law on client businesses, as well as to the potential risks, liabilities and mitigation strategies that these requirements entail.

Our clients are active in various industries, such as forestry, chemicals, infrastructure, energy, including Green Transition and renewables, mining and natural resources, life sciences (pharmaceuticals and healthcare), publishing and media, food, retail, ICT and telecommunications, automotive industry, logistics, as well as waste and circularity management.

our team

Our team advises clients on the whole spectrum of competition law-related issues, offering a solution-oriented approach to support clients’ operations, while reducing legal risks. We advise clients on M&A matters and the related regulatory processes, contractual arrangements (cooperation with competitors and supply chain arrangements), various types of joint venture issues, competition law questions arising on highly concentrated markets (dominant position) as well as on preventative strategies and risk mitigation issues (compliance programmes and training, as well as internal competition audits).

I was very pleased with the advice, which considered our issue from more viewpoints than I could have wished for and from both an EU and national competition regulatory perspective

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Advice in interpreting the changing competition regulation

HPP’s competition team is regularly involved in merger control and clearance notifications to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority and the European Commission and have significant experience of negotiating conditions for clearance of transactions which present competition concerns. The team also regularly advises on state aid issues.

In addition, the practice regularly represents companies in foreign direct investment proceedings before the national screening authority (the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland) and more generally advises on FDI related issues in M&A context.