Restrictive Practices
SÉRVULO provides clients with support to clients in relation to daily or structural commercial decisions with legal implications, promoting and fostering advocacy and compliance with competition and regulatory legal frameworks, counselling clients on a permanent basis so as to ensure that legislation requirements are always complied with. The team also represents and defends clients whenever administrative or judicial cases do arise, in all areas of competition law.
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Alberto Saavedra
Miguel Gorjão-Henriques
Mergers
SÉRVULO assesses transactions from a merger law perspective and advises clients on whether there exists or not a concentration or a notifiable concentration, and whenever relevant, submitting it to or negotiating with the relevant competition authorities, namely the Portuguese Competition Authority or the European Commission. SÉRVULO has gained considerable experience advising on concentration matters related to M&A deals, conducting evaluations, and representing the notifying party, the acquired company, interested third parties or even companies denouncing gun jumping practices.
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Alberto Saavedra
Miguel Gorjão-Henriques
State Aid
State involvement in the economic affairs of a company is always a subject of careful scrutiny, by public authorities as well as rival companies. State aid is one of SÉRVULO’s particular areas of expertise and the firm has a vast experience working across a range of sectors.
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Alberto Saavedra
Miguel Gorjão-Henriques
Pre-litigation and Litigation
SÉRVULO has represented numerous private and public sector clients in pre-litigation and litigation proceedings before national authorities, such as the Autoridade da Concorrência or INFARMED, or the European Commission, the European Central Bank and other institutions, bodies, offices and agencies. The team is well-practised in managing cases heard by the Competition Court in Portugal or by the General Court of the Court of Justice, at EU level, in regards to actions for infringement, actions for damages and actions for annulment.
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Alberto Saavedra
Miguel Gorjão-Henriques
The European Union Internal Market
European Union Law covers all areas of economic activity and is becoming increasingly unavoidable to all types of business practices. SÉRVULO has vast experience dealing with the treaties primary law as well as with secondary legislation in all areas of the European Union internal market, whether relating to individuals or companies, to capital, goods or services.
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Alberto Saavedra
Miguel Gorjão-Henriques
FDI and Foreign Subsidies
Foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign subsidies are increasingly subject to national and European rules and regulations, the aim of which is to prevent obstacles to competition and the internal market. Ex ante and ex post control systems are being put in place by public authorities, at national and EU level, in various areas of law, such as merger control and public procurement. In this context, SÉRVULO advises its clients so that their actions comply with all the rules in force or checks whether these pieces of legislation are complied with.
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Miguel Gorjão-Henriques
Francisco Marques de Azevedo