Vivek Agarwal is a Partner in the Competition Law Practice at DMD Advocates. He has been practising competition law in India since 2009, and was involved in the drafting and the finalisation of the Combination Regulations, working closely with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. He has been representing and advising Indian and foreign companies on a full spectrum of competition law issues.

Vivek has been engaged in various high profile enforcement cases before the CCI, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (erstwhile, Competition Appellate Tribunal) and the Supreme Court of India. He has been involved in multiple cartel cases including beer, paper, auto-parts, airlines, tyres, batteries, and soda ash, some of which are leniency cases. On the abuse of domi-nance side, he has worked on cases such as stem cell banking, DTH, medical equipment/ multi-specialty hospitals, automobile spare parts, IT, stock exchange, steel, publishing, and railways.

Vivek also focuses on vertical agreements and competition compliance programmes. He advises various companies on potential competition risks with dealer/ distributor/ supply/ procurement agreements, imposition of vertical restraints and actual market conduct with business partners.