Competition Law
Team of BBH lawyers provided legal support to ŠKODA HOLDING a.s. on competition aspects of the acquisition of Pars nova a.s. by ŠKODA HOLDING a.s. As a part of complex advisory services BBH in particular carried on market analysis in the area of production and maintenance of rail vehicles, determined relevant markets for the concentration and drafted parts of the anti-trust consent application related to the market and dealing with the market consequences of the concentration.
Public Procurement and Competition Law:
BBH has gained a prominent reputation in the area of public procurement law through its comprehensive approach to the participants, including the successful representation of them at the Office for the Protection of Competition. We would like to mention the following clients who were represented by BBH or to whom BBH has rendered its services in connection with public procurement law: ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION s.r.o., Dexia Kommunalkredit Czech Republic a.s., Wotan Invest, a.s., BDO IT a.s., IMPROMAT CZ spol. s r.o., Siemens AG Österreich and many more.
We would like to mention particularly the following references:
- Ministry of Internal Affairs. BBH was approached by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to provide extensive and complex legal services in connection with a project for the purchase of data and fixed voice communication infrastructure services for the whole Czech Republic public sector (governmental, municipal and district organizations). The estimated volume of the project amounts to approx. 410 mil. EUR. in total over the next 4 years.
- In connection with our M&A and general commercial law practice, BBH has been engaged by its clients on numerous occasions to provide them with advice in the field of competition law. In this area BBH has extensive experience not only in providing its clients with legal advice and opinions as to the specific questions related to competition law, but also with addressing competition law matters in contractual documentation, as well as representing clients in respective competition law proceedings.
Among the clients who took advantage of the services rendered by BBH in this area we would like to mention ŠKODA HOLDING a.s., CET 21 s.r.o., PRE a.s. and PPF a.s.
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