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Arthur Braun

Braun (Prague)

Managing Partner

Arthur Braun is a senior partner of the law firm Braun Partners and a leader of the M&A team. In addition, he also focuses on corporate and commercial law, competition law, labor law and market entries. Throughout his practise, he has taken part in hundreds of transactions executed by international and domestic clients. Arthur Braun is also an author of numerous publications and regularly lectures at seminars, conferences and universities.

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Arthur Braun The Czech Competition Authority announces that it will recommence dawn raids

18 March 2015 285

The Prohibition on Dawn Raids in the Czech Republic has Ended* Last autumn, the Czech Antitrust Office had announced that it halted its dawn raids. The decision came from – what many felt – was a surprise decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) dated 2 October 2014 (...)

Arthur Braun The EU Court of Human Rights condemns the Czech Republic for lack of effective independent control of competition dawn raids (Delta Pekarny)

2 October 2014 262

No More Dawn Raids in the Czech Republic* For a few weeks now, the Czech Antitrust Office has stopped its dawn raids. The reason for this stems from the surprising decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (ECHR) dated 2 October 2014 (DELTA PEKARNY a.s., complaint number (...)

Arthur Braun The Czech Competition Authority imposes fines for abuse of significant market power on the retail market for agricultural and food products (Kaufland)

23 October 2013 338

Food Retailers in the Czech Republic, Be Aware!* The so-called Act on Significant Market Power for the Sale of Agricultural and Food Products and the Abuse thereof (No. 359/2009 Coll.) had effect from 1 February 2010. In October 2013, internal appeal procedures ended with the first significant (...)

Arthur Braun The Slovak Competition Authority proposes the introduction of a new section in the Act on Protection of Economic Competition law giving natural persons a financial incentive for whistleblowing

30 November 2012 219

Slovakia: Cash Incentives to Whistleblowers?* At the end of 2012 the Slovak Antimonopoly Office presented its future plans for public discussion. Various aspects such as the announced prioritisation of antitrust enforcement, the incentives for settlement of antitrust cases, the establishment (...)

Arthur Braun The Czech Competition Authority hands out penalties to five participants in a bid rigging cartel in the construction industry (Inzet)

26 August 2011 234

Penalty for first Czech Bid Rigging Case Confirmed by Court* Bid rigging has for a long time been a merely theoretical example of criminal liability in Czech Antitrust law without any actual cases decided. Until 2010 with the introduction of criminal liability for hard-core horizontal cartels, (...)