Ivan Gurov worked at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Competition Commission of Bulgaria and has been a stagiaire with the European Commission’s Merger Task Force. He is a graduate of the University of Strasbourg, King’s College London, the John Marshall Law School and the École Nationale d’Administration. Ivan was an associate at the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer until early 2008.
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Commission for the Protection of Competition, 2 August 2007, Decision n° 628, Kremikovtzi (MSWord Doc.) In July 2006, the Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) prohibited a de facto exclusive agreement between Cemeco OOD (Cemeco), a cement producer, and the steel plant (...)
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In yet another foreign-to-foreign merger case, the Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC or the Commission) issued a clearance decision neatly summing up the current state-of-play in terms of competition assessment of the pharmaceutical markets in Bulgaria. Following its (...)
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In a potentially far-reaching case, the Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (the Commission or CPC) addressed the balance between licensing rights and competition regulation. In 2000, a well-established Bulgarian producer of vegetal oils and fats, Kaliakra AD (Kaliakra), (...)
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The Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (the Commission or CPC) authorised a foreign-to-foreign merger by which the German lorry and engine maker MAN AG (MAN) was to acquire the Swedish company Scania AB (Scania), active in the same industries. Prior to the CPC decision, the (...)
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The Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) maintained its traditional tough approach towards rent-seeking in the funeral services sector in a recent decision regarding the practices of a municipal funeral agency in the town of Razgrad. In the case at stake, the town (...)
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Commission for the Protection of Competition, 6 February 2007, Decision n° 37, Schneider / APC (Not yet published) Three weeks before the entry of Bulgaria into the European Union, Schneider Electric S. A. (Schneider) notified the Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) (...)
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Commission for the Protection of Competition, 22 July 2006 , Decision n° 174, Kremikovtzi/Cemeco (Doc. Word) Pursuant to the individual exemption procedure, still in force under Bulgarian competition law, Cemeco OOD (“Cemeco”), a cement producer, notified to the Bulgarian Commission for the (...)
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The Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC or Commission) authorised the acquisition of the main national filmmaking studios, Boyana Film EAD (“Boyana”) by the US-based New Image Inc. and its Bulgarian subsidiary New Image Bulgaria EOOD (together, “New Image”). The main (...)
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On 11 April 2006, the French Competition Council (“CC” or “the Council”) issued simultaneously its first ever formal decision in a leniency application procedure and a notice on the French leniency programme. The case at stake involved ten wooden-door producers that have operated two cartel (...)
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In January 2005, the Paris district court (Tribunal de grande instance de Paris (TGI)) rejected a patent enforcement action of LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau (LuK) , a dual-mass flywheel (DMF) producer, against one of its direct competitors, Valéo. In a contingent counterclaim, Valéo alleged that (...)
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