Area of Practice

Anti-Trust

The Practice

AQUILAW’s Anti-Trust practice advises corporates, investors and businesses on competition law matters arising from their transactions, commercial arrangements and business practices. Our work covers merger control, market conduct, anti-competitive arrangements, compliance, including competition issues arising in technology-driven and digital markets.

We work with clients from the early stages of a transaction or business strategy to identify potential competition concerns, structure arrangements appropriately and navigate regulatory requirements and scrutiny, helping businesses move forward with confidence in an increasingly active enforcement environment.

Key Service Offerings

Advising on competition law implications of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments and other business combinations in India.
Assessing notification requirements and assisting with merger control filings and engagement with the Competition Commission of India.
Advising on potential abuse of dominance issues, including market definition, exclusionary conduct and other unilateral business practices.
Advising on anti-competitive agreements, including arrangements involving competitors, distributors, suppliers and other business partners.
Advising on competition law considerations in commercial arrangements, including distribution, licensing, technology and strategic collaboration agreements.
Advising on competition law issues arising in digital markets, platform businesses, data-driven businesses and technology-enabled commercial models.

The Aquilaw Advantage

Competition law increasingly shapes commercial decisions long before a deal or contract is signed, and our Anti-Trust team is built to be part of that conversation early rather than brought in after the fact. We work alongside our corporate, technology and disputes teams so that competition risk is assessed as part of the broader commercial strategy. That early involvement, backed by hands-on experience, is what allows us to give advice that clients can actually act on.

The team navigate and facilitate complex commercial deals within tight timelines and readily provide innovative commercial solutions to overcome negotiation hurdles.