Competition

Asters

Leading in antitrust investigations and merger cases, Asters remains at the forefront of the competition market. The team continues to expand its full-service offering, noting a recent influx in public procurement instructions and building on its expertise in the energy, transportation and automotive sectors. The practice also boasts a dedicated state aid team and is active in legislative initiatives. Igor Svechkar’s broad competition practice spans merger control, cartels, dominance and state aid, and he regularly leads the team in significant mergers in the Ukrainian market. Bringing to the team in-house experience at the Antimonopoly Committee, Oleksandr Voznyuk focuses on investigations and litigation before the Committee. Sergiy Glushchenko boasts experience in public procurement, antitrust and state aid matters, and Pavlo Verbolyuk represents an impressive range of national and international clients.

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Testimonials

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‘Professional team with good expertise and practical approaches.’
‘Sergiy Glushchenko has very good expertise and experience in competition compliance. He is business-oriented, with effective communication. His advice and memos always provide practical recommendations that are extremely helpful for the business.’
‘Having worked with almost all top-tier law firms in Ukraine, we are unaware of any other law firm on the Ukrainian market with a level of expertise equal to the one Asters offers to its clients in the area of the competition law.’
‘We would like to distinguish Oleksandr Voznyuk and his team, especially Anastasiia Pozhar. If you are working with them, you can expect an incredibly deep expertise, a deep dive into the issue, exceptional attention to detail, very practical and down-to-earth solutions, genuine curiosity towards a client's business, needs and priorities, good understanding of the main stakeholders, i.e. the Ukrainian anti-trust authority, wonderful negotiations skills and approachability.’

Key clients

Bosch
Broadcom
Brookfield
Clariant
Cheplapharm
KKR
Nestle
One Rock Capital
Philip Morris
Renault
Visa

Work highlights

Obtaining merger clearance for the acquisition by KKR of the end-user computing division of Broadcom.
Obtaining merger clearance for the acquisition by One Rock Capital Partners of Constantia Flexibles from Wendel.
Representing Mironivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), a poultry producer in Europe, in the ongoing investigations into alleged abuse of dominance.