Vogel & Vogel assists companies in connection with vertical and horizontal agreements. In particular, the firm guides its clients wishing to ensure the legality of their conduct or who undergo dawn raids or receive statements of objections. The firm also assists companies desirous of filing complaints regarding possible anti-competitive agreements in their sectors.

Vogel & Vogel regularly offers specific training in competition compliance (compliance programs) to its clients as well as competition audits within companies.

Vogel & Vogel assists companies, both in filing claims and defending themselves in the area of unfair competition in matters involving claims of free-riding, disparagement, confusion, imitation, poaching or breach of non-compete clauses.  

The sectors recently opened to competition (electricity, telecommunications, energy, on-line games, etc.) are regulated by sector-specific regulations involving new and diverse problems (margin squeezes, regulating pricing practices, obligations of access to infrastructures, etc.). Vogel & Vogel acts on behalf of economic operators on such “deregulated markets”, providing both advice and representation before the regulation authorities and appeal jurisdictions. More particularly, Vogel & Vogel intervenes regularly before the CORDIS [Committee for the Settlement of Disputes and Sanctions] of the Commission de Régulation de l’Energie (Energy Regulation Commission) (CRE), before the CSA [audiovisual board] and before the ARCEP [agency in charge of regulating telecommunications in France].

Dumping consists not only in selling at a loss, but also in selling goods in another country at a lower price than the price charged in the country of origin of the undertaking in question. Vogel & Vogel has initiated anti-dumping actions in order to put an end to these unfair practices.