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The competition and antitrust group at White & Case LLP provides advice to clients from a range of sectors, including the TMT, IT, financial, and oil and gas industries. Its offering includes representation in both Polish and EU antitrust investigations, as well as assistance with merger control, state aid, and compliance matters. Jakub Gubański leads the team.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Strong experience in the European antitrust law regime.’

  • ‘Very prompt response, good strategy, and practical solutions meeting commercial needs.’

  • ‘White & Case offers deep legal expertise combined with commercial understanding. Trusted and reliable advice always.’

  • 'Always reachable with a solutions-driven approach and a true sense of delivering the best for their client.'

  • 'Iwo Małobęcki and Jakub Gubański are both willing to lend themselves to assist the client with understanding the rationale for the most pragmatic approach to competition filing, so that this work stream is tackled with minimum disruption for the deal teams.'

Key clients

  • Synthos Group
  • STS Holding
  • Play Group
  • Liberty Global
  • Citigroup Global Markets Europe
  • Synthos Green Energy
  • W.A.G payment solutions
  • Saudi Arabian Oil Company
  • ALD Automotive
  • Better Energy
  • Mexichem Fluor
  • Toyota Industries Corporation
  • Grupa Pracuj
  • MidEuropa
  • RTL Group
  • CTP Group
  • Schneider Electric

Work highlights

  • Represented Synthos in the European Commission’s cartel case relating to the arrangements between six buyers of styrene monomer.
  • Advised Citigroup Global Markets Europe, acting as the financial advisor to ORLEN, on antitrust issues concerning ORLEN’s two mergers with Grupa Lotos and PGNiG.
  • Advised STS Holding and its majority shareholders on the sale of all their shares in the company to Entain Holdings CEE.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jakub Gubański

Other key lawyers

Iwo Małobęcki, Maciej Gac