Uría Menéndez is one of Spain's three leading EU competition firms. Partner Edurne Navarro led the firm on all its major mandates....
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Uría Menéndez is one of Spain's three leading EU competition firms. Partner Edurne Navarro led the firm on all its major mandates. Notably, a number of non-Spanish clients engaged the firm for EU competition advice.
In 2010, it advised Spanish television company Telecinco in a case before the EU Commission and Spanish authorities on its €500 million purchase of a controlling stake in Digital+ from Prisa. The case involved second phase approval plus a referral from one authority to another.
The firm assisted the Austrian subsidiary of Roca in an appeal and lenience request relating to a commission cartel investigation, and French defence group Thales in a joint venture with Diehl to acquire the cabin components business of Airbus. In Telefónica's acquisition of Vivo, the firm helped Telefónica challenge the 'golden share' reserved for the Portuguese government in Portugal Telecom.
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