Antitrust and Competition

KIAP's Antitrust practice represents the interests of clients in litigation with antimonopoly authorities, provides support for inspections and antimonopoly proceedings, and also advises on issues of antimonopoly legislation. The practice is recommended by Chambers Europe 2020 and Legal 500 EMEA 2021 international ratings, as well as the Russian ratings Pravo 300, Rating of Sympathies of Pravo.Ru and Kommersant rating. The practice's clients include the largest Russian and international retailers, manufacturing and IT corporations, as well as logistics companies and enterprises operating in the fuel and energy complex.

Support of audits and antimonopoly investigations:

  • Representation at the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) on stages of document request and antimonopoly law compliance investigation
  • Representation at the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation on stage of antimonopoly law violation case investigation
  • Representation at FAS of administrative law violation case
  • Appraisal of criminal and legal risks relating to antimonopoly law violations

Consultations on antimonopoly law:

  • Consultations on compliance of agreement policies and management activities with the antimonopoly law
  • Consultations within the framework of state control over economic concentration (transactions on shares acquisition, property, rights concerning the Russian legal entities) endorsement with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation, endorsement of companies foundation, merger and takeover, etc.

Support during litigation with antimonopoly bodies:

  • Representation during litigation with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation in cases of antimonopoly law violation
  • Representation during litigation with the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation in cases of administrative law violation

Ilya Ischuk
Partner
Attorney
Ph.D in Law
Julia Paushkina
Attorney
Head of practice
Liubov Makhlai
Attorney
Senior Associate
Roman Suslov
Senior Associate
Ph.D in Law
Rustam Bolshakov
Junior Associate
Consulting in the field of antimonopoly legislation
The largest retail chain represented in more than 50 regions of Russia contacted KIAP with a request to audit the company’s activities for compliance with antimonopoly legislation. The primary goal of the project was to identify all processes that entail antimonopoly risks, the “holders” of these processes within the company, as well as their relationship. The task was complicated d...
The client contacted KIAP with a request to audit the applied business practices for compliance with antimonopoly legislation and the Federal Law “On the Fundamentals of State Regulation of Trade Activities in the Russian Federation” (“Trade Law”). In particular, they were interested in issues related to the procedure for calculating the threshold amount of remuneration paid by suppliers to re...
Disputes with antimonopoly authorities
For several years, KIAP employees represented the Client’s interests in a series of proceedings with the Irkutsk Office of FAS in cases of antimonopoly violation and administrative liability, which were considered in various instances including the internal appeal of the FAS and the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. The process deserves attention due to the fact that w...
22 March 2024 Ilya Ischuk, Daniil Zherdev
KIAP lawyers represented the interests of the retailer in a series of odious cases of antimonopoly violation and administrative liability for creating discriminatory conditions for suppliers of fish and fish products. In fact, this is the first case of the Russian FAS in relation to the Trade Law, which was new at the time of its initiation and with which the antimonopoly authority ...
22 March 2024 Ilya Ischuk, Julia Paushkina