The latest amendments to the legislative Act regarding competition and consumer protection
26.06.2023 Publications Private Equity Competition and consumer law
It is axiomatic that antitrust / competition protection law originated in the United States, yet certain recent developments there are driven by political and economic factors also affecting Europe. As Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik and Bartek Świetlik of GESSEL explain, soon enough, European antitrust authorities may be adopting a wider perspective on the activities of private equity firms, regarding them in a deeper context.
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Bernadeta Kasztelan-Świetlik
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Attorney-at-law
Competition and consumer law
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Attorney-at-law
After a brief period as a junior judge, Bernadeta developed an interest in competition law, which was a new discipline in early 1990s Poland. After her first stint at UOKiK, she spent one year leading the legal department of UPC and then joined GESSEL in 2001. In 2014, after moving to the head office of UOKiK, she oversaw the authority’s activities in the realms of corporate concentrations, market collusions, and abuse of dominant market posit...
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