Our qualified team has gained a ten year significant experience from the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) in all the aspects of competition law. We have participated in numerous competition law cases regarding the detection of cartels, abuse of dominant position, vertical restraints, merger control and regulatory intervention in certain economic sectors (i.e energy, oil sector, food sector, services, retail trade, etc). We have represented the HCC before the Council of State and the Athens Court of Appeals in the most prominent competition law cases. We were involved in cases before the European Court of Justice and the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition (DG-COMP) and gained invaluable experience concerning the oral hearing process and pleading. We have actively participated in many working groups of the European Competition Network (ECN) and the International Competition Network (ICN) as well as in meetings organized by the Organization for Economic Development (OECD) in Paris.

Our team, comprising of lawyers and economists, jointly employ law and economic theory, grounded in a thorough understanding of the market, to provide a full range of theoretical and empirical legal and economic analysis and testimony in matters involving mergers and acquisitions, antitrust litigation, regulatory and competition policy. We analyze the entire range of legal and economic issues that arise in antitrust cases, including market definition, market dynamics, entry conditions, pricing, single firm conduct, agreements, and profitability. Our expert team assesses and testifies to the economic merits of allegations of anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions, foreclosure and exclusionary conduct (e.g., tying, bundling, and refusals to supply), horizontal and vertical restraints, monopolization and abuse of dominant position, and collusion. DRAS-IS expert team has gained extensive experience in evaluating allegations of anticompetitive price fixing, bid rigging, customer allocation, buyer cartels, and other forms of collusive behavior. Our experts are capable of conducting econometric analysis of detailed transaction or bidding data to obtain a clear picture of the effect, if any, of an alleged conspiracy. Such studies may be a major element of an economic analysis of liability, impact (the fact of injury), and damages (the amount of overcharge) in price fixing and bid rigging matters, as well as in other matters involving allegedly collusive behavior. Furthermore, our team can effectively conduct merger simulations in order to assess the pro-competitive or anti-competitive effects of a specific merger or acquisition in all of the undertaking relevant markets.

Marina Stavropoulou, the leading member of the Dras-is team, was recently trusted to present the cartel regulation of Greece at the ‘Getting the Deal Through: Cartel Regulation 2017’ book.  Download for free the book by clicking here*.

*Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. Getting the Deal Through: Cartel Regulation 2017, (published in November 2016; contributing editor: A Neil Campbell, McMillan LLP) For further information please click here.