Core competencies

Competition policy constrains the conduct of firms with market power, restricting their ability to merge and create joint ventures, to set prices and the terms of supply, and to enter into particular types of agreements with their competitors and customers.

Frontier's competition practice is expert in handling all aspects of competition policy. In brief, we:

• define markets, the starting point for any competition assessment and the basis for an assessment of market power;
• identify potential merger effects, using economic theory supported by empirical analysis;
• advise when certain forms of behaviour might be considered abusive as opposed to competition on the merits;
• distinguish the potentially harmful effects of horizontal and vertical agreements from the benefits they generate; and
• establish the existence of state aid and assess its likely effects on a market.

Our brochure contains details of our case work.