Antitrust, Competition and Trade

The CMS Antitrust, Competition and Trade (ACT) group in Romania is part of the fully integrated CMS global team, one of the largest specialist competition and trade teams in the world. More than 225 CMS experts advise clients in over 40 countries worldwide on all ACT matters.

Due to our size, in-depth knowledge of the local market as well as of the practice of the Romanian competition authority, the cross-sectoral expertise and the ability to bring resources from across CMS offices, we are able to deal with all ACT matters irrespective of their geographic dimension. Where necessary, we cooperate with long established contacts from our wider network of law firms all over the world.

We advise on the full range of Antitrust, Competition and Trade matters, and we have a successful track record in representing clients before national authorities and courts, as well as the European Commission. We have expert sub-groups specialising in specific areas within the wider competition and trade field, e.g. cartels, horizontal and vertical restraints, abuse of dominance, merger control, State Aid, FDI/Foreign Direct Investments, unfair trading practices (e.g. in the agricultural sector and food industry), and related areas such as platform regulation, litigation matters, public procurement and consumer protection. We are also well-known as experts in various sectors of the economy: manufacturing, automotive, agriculture, consumer products/FMCG, construction, digital economy, energy/oil & gas, financial services, life sciences, real estate, telecommunications/media and technology, transport to name but a few. 

Our clients range from many very large multinationals, which frequently use our team as their ACT law firm of choice for the entire region (e.g., in Europe or CEE), to governments at all levels and a large number of medium-sized companies. 

We use the most up-to-date technical and AI tools to support our business in Romania and abroad. 

We hold a renowned annual EU competition law conference that has become a feature in the Brussels calendar. We put out regular case law updates on Romanian, European and international competition and trade developments on our Law Now service. In addition, a management committee of partners and a group of associates help to keep us innovating to better serve clients.

We cover every area of Antitrust, Competition and Trade law—internationally and on the Romanian market.