Marcin Trepka

Marcin assists Clients with respect to the entire spectrum of competition law. He represented clients in some of the most challenging and well-known antitrust matters involving cartels (cement, chemical products to mining industry, and heat power cartel cases), antitrust litigation (lead defense counsel in one of the first private enforcement cases in Poland), or abuse of dominant market position (regarding the abuse of a dominant position on the gas markets in CEE). Marcin has also an extensive expertise in delivering complex antitrust compliance solutions, advising Clients on vertical and horizontal agreements (including distribution issues, on-line sales, cooperation between competitors, pricing and bonus policies), merger control (multijurisdictional mergers and JV), and consumer law issues (regulatory and consumer litigation). Marcin advises a wide range of Clients, including chemical, energy, insurance, media, finance and life science groups.

• Defending a leading chemical producer in one of the first private enforcement litigations in Poland.
• Advising a leading gas company in a precedent cartel investigation before the Polish Competition Authority in which the Competition Office charged managers, and used a parental liability concept for the first time.
• Advising a leading chemical producer in a precedent bid rigging/cartel investigation and the following court litigation against the Polish Competition Authority decision in which the Authority used an economic evidence for the first time.
• Advising Polish Gas and Oil Company (PGNIG S.A.) in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union on a complaint against a decision of the European Commission issued in anti-trust proceedings concerning the abuse of a dominant position on the energy markets in Central and Eastern Europe by Gazprom. 
• Advising a leading media group on joint selling sport rights issues regarding extension of the license agreement on football media rights and its compliance with the competition law.
• Advised a leading manufacturer of the packagings in merger clearance proceeding before the Polish Competition Office regarding USD 187 million acquisition of leading manufacturers of thermoformed packaging.
• Advised a leading investment fund in multi-jurisdictional antitrust proceedings in Poland, Germany, Norway and Austria successfully obtaining consents to take over a leading producer and distributor of rehabilitation equipment.
• Advised a leading EU printing machines manufacturers on multijurisdictional antimonopoly proceedings before the Polish Competition Office and Bundeskartellamt on obtaining consent to establish a joint undertaking (JV) active on digital printing market.
• Representing a leading debt collection company in Poland in an appeal proceedings before the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection against a decision alleging infringement of collective consumer interests and imposing a significant financial fine.
• Advised a leading insurance group in preparation and implementation of complex consumer law compliance programme including creation of the financial products (i.e. life insurance with insurance capital fund), the organization and planning of the sale of products for consumers, as well as advertising and promotion of those products.

• Warsaw Bar Association - Member
• ICC Commission on Competition in Paris - Co-Chairman of the global Cartels&Leniency Task Force
• ICC Commission on Competition in Poland - Vice-president