Bernitsas has advised Kosmocar on its acquisition of MAN Hellas Truck & Bus as well as on obtaining phase 1 merger clearance from the Hellenic Competition Commission.

At the beginning of each year Bulgarian Competition Protection Commission announces (the “CPC”) its priorities. The priorities for 2025 do not differ very much from those set in the previous years and show consistency.

In terms of competition, the year 2024 was marked by 2 important milestones – the first part of the year, until the appointment of the new Plenum of the Competition Council, during which the authority focused on finalizing some internal issues (rulings and other procedural matters), and the second part of the year, when the new Plenum of the Competition Council started its activity, showing the first signs of the strategy for the next two and a half years.

Divjak, Topic, Bahtijarevic & Krka has advised on the concentration notification for a joint venture between Koncar and Siemens Energy Group, resulting in the formation of Koncar - Transformatorski Kotlovi.

Nechala & Partners has announced it successfully represented Zdruzenie Realitnuch Kancelarii Slovenska and software provider BackOffice in their complaint before the Slovak Antimonopoly Office regarding United Classifieds.

Avellum has advised Ukrnafta on obtaining approval from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine for the acquisition of Shell’s Ukrainian business – a network of petrol stations.