Erik Brändt Öfverholm specializes in competition law. He heads DLA Piper’s competition & public procurement group in Sweden. Before joining DLA Piper, he was the head of EU and Competition Law at another international law firm in Stockholm. Erik also has a background at the Swedish Competition Authority. Erik Brändt Öfverholm assists clients on all competition law-related matters, such as strategic merger control advice, litigation and matters before competition authorities, compliance, state aid and public procurement. Erik is ranked as a "Rising Star" by Legal 500.
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In January 2019, the Swedish Patent and Market Court found that a dominant company’s termination of an access agreement with a downstream competitor constituted an abuse. By finding that the refusal had to be able to eliminate all effective competition on the downstream market in order to be (...)
