Litigation

KA Legal has extensive, almost 30-year active experience of contentious and litigious State aids, antitrust, trade and general EU law matters.  We regularly litigate before the EU and national courts in these areas.   We frequently draft and submit complaints to competition authorities on behalf of injured parties as well as representing parties under investigation. 

Our recent experience includes:

• Representing Hellas Gold SA and European Goldfields Limited in a major State aid procedure before the EU General Court in Luxembourg against the European Commission's decision in relation to alleged State aid as a result of a below market value sale in the mining sector in Greece.
• Representing Chinese exporters before the European Court Justice against a European Commission appeal regarding the imposition of EU anti-dumping duties on Chinese herbicide glyphosate.  This is has been a landmark case that influenced the trade relations between China and the EU.
• Representing a major media group in Italy before the European Courts in State aid litigation proceedings regarding alleged aid for the purchase of digital decoders.
• Advising a major international sports association in an arbitration with a media company, where abuse of a dominant position affecting the licensing of TV broadcasting rights was alleged.
• Representing a tobacco processing company in litigation before the national and EU Courts.
• Represented the European Commission and the European Investment Bank in public procurement litigation before the European Courts.
• Representing a major Russian client in an action for damages before the European Courts alleging illegal imposition of anti-dumping duties whilst a cartel was operating in Europe.
• Successfully representing several Indian stainless steel manufacturers before the EU General Court in challenging the legality of EU antidumping and countervailing duties imposed on EU imports of Indian stainless steel bars/
• Representing a major Greek ferry company before the EU general Court and European Court of Justice in the famous "Greek Ferries carte " case.