EC Competition Law The Competition Law team of O’Connor and Company is a highly motivated group of lawyers with a thorough experience in the field of EC and national competition laws. Lawyers of the team regularly advise governments and international corporations on the broad scope of EC competition law, and represent clients before the European Commission, the European Court of Justice, the Court of First Instance, as well as national courts and national antitrust authorities. In particular, O’Connor and Company advises clients on the liberalisation of network industries, sectors previously reserved to state-owned companies, such as electronic telecommunications, postal services, transport and energy. Lawyers in the firm have represented and assisted clients in landmark cases of abuse of dominant position, assisted market entrance, radio spectrum allocation and state aids.   Amongst other, the firm has advised European operators on tariffs agreements for cross border services and on agreements for the development of pan-European services. O’Connor and Company has also advised on exclusive and selective distribution agreements, the application of the Community “block exemption” regulations, rules on resale price maintenance, active and passive sales, tying clauses and loyalty rebates.   The team has also assisted Governments and state-owned companies where the EC Commission has acted directly in relation to them under the Article 86 procedures and in the implementation of Commission’s decisions in national law. The firm has successfully obtained regulatory clearance before the European Commission in respect of national and international joint ventures, in the electronic communications, car-hire and fleet management sector, facility management sectors, water and gas industries, as well as mergers and acquisitions having a Community dimension under the EC Merger Control Regulation in the elctronic communications and energy sectors.   The lawyers in the firm have also obtained antitrust clearance under merger control laws of various European and third countries of mergers and acquisitions not having a Community dimension, for example in Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Portugal and Belgium.   O’Connor and Company continuously monitors developments in EC competition law, such as the recent reform of antitrust procedures and merger control and keeps a constant eye on developments in competition law and practice in a number of EC Member States. Our publications