Competition

Helping our clients go further

Our antitrust practice offers clients unparalleled expertise in EU and Romanian competition law, by combining both the resources of our highly qualified lawyers and a recognised business-oriented approach.

Our competition team offers a high-end integrated platform in competition matters, which successfully meets client’s most demanding and diverse needs:

comprehensive assistance during antitrust investigation proceedings;
antitrust litigation and private damages;
tailored advice on antitrust compliance in various industries;
implementation of antitrust prudential measures;
one stop shop merger control assistance;
state aid matters.

We pride ourselves on being widely recognised by both corporates and regulators as one of the most experienced and competent practices in Romania.

We are top Tier in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 in Competition.

Catalin Suliman is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers Europe and is listed as a leading individual by Legal 500.

Silviu Vasile is listed as a rising star by Legal 500.

Recognitions

“Filip & Company’s team is a very well prepared one, business oriented, proactive, open-minded. All the projects that were done with their support was a success due to the lawyers that work in this firm.”

Legal 500, 2024

“Filip & Company is one of our closest and most trusted partners. With exceptionally strong ability to offer well documented arguments and draw reasonable and logical assumptions from limited information, time and resource management skills, they make every client feel like a priority. Due to their outstanding work ethics and knowledgeable partners and associates, they stand out as a reliable and professional law firm.”

Legal 500, 2024

“It is a very reliable team, with a good understanding of our business. It is very business-oriented and practical in its advice, and sometimes come up with nice business solutions, so we got a very good input. Overall it is a very good team.”

Chamber Europe, 2024

“Filip & Company has a specialised team of lawyers with deep knowledge and experience dealing with disputes against competition authorities.”

Chamber Europe, 2024

“Filip & Company gives high-quality support and has a high level of responsiveness.”

Chambers Europe, 2023

“The lawyers go above and beyond to provide very prompt and high-quality services.”

Chambers Europe, 2023

“Collaboration, continuous support, trainings and open minded lawyers with flexibility and proactivity.”

Legal 500, 2022

“The quality of advice is excellent.”

Chambers Europe, 2022

A commentator confirms: “Filip & Company is the best,” and particularly appreciates the team’s “dedication, experience, business understanding and proactivity.”

Chambers Europe, 2022

One client enthuses that the team is “one of the best” in competition matters, and reports that the lawyers “are always very prompt, hands-on and adopt a business-oriented approach.”
Chambers Europe, 2021

Another client appreciates that the team “has a very down-to-earth approach, in-depth business understanding and provides practical advice.”
Chambers Europe, 2021

A client underlines that the firm “has a very strong and capable competition law team,” adding that the lawyers “are fast and responsive, instantly understanding the client’s needs.”
Chambers Europe, 2021

“The lawyers understand the business very well and are always available, flexible and adaptable.”
Chambers Europe, 2020

“The business acumen and the communication have been excellent. The lawyers understand the case and the feedback is always very accurate.”
Chambers Europe, 2020

“Very focused on competition matters and very innovative. They take on the challenges positively and with a flexible approach.”
Legal 500, 2020

“The team is relaxed in the interaction with the client without any impact on their professionalism. It is easy to get a hold of them and there is no need to speak only with the head of the department. Connecting with any of the team members will suffice and you will get all information required.”
Legal 500, 2020

“approachable, easy to contact and willing to help us at very short notice.”
Chambers Europe, 2019

Client successes

assisted a leading cement company in the first investigation of an alleged collective dominance and other acquisitions and investigations;
assisted one of the largest banks in Romania in the merger control proceedings involving the acquisition of Bancpost SA and two non-bank financial institutions. The merger has been a very complex one, given that the parties were active on all banking markets and their activities overlapped on most of them;
assisted a major player active in the SEE online market in the framework of one of the very first investigations into online segment. The lack of clarity of the competition rules applicable to this area and the scarce case law implied a significant effort to argue before the competition authorities the lack of anticompetitive effects and the existence of actual efficiencies;
assisted the largest cable company on an antitrust complaint submitted to the Competition Council against a large local TV content supplier for refusal to provide its programs on the DTH TV carriage platform; assisting the client with defending against a complaint submitted by a large international content supplier arguing abuse of dominance (the complaint was rejected); assisting the client in a commitment procedure (comments against commitments proposed by a supplier of TV sports rights);
assisted a local company and its shareholder in connection with the first investigation in the pharmaceutical industry (also the first investigation of an alleged abuse of dominant position).