Competition

Our expertise covers all aspects of EU/national (in particular, German) anti-trust law, including advising on distribution, specialisation, R&D, commercialisation, production, joint-venture and technology licensing agreements, as well as regularly representing clients in anti-trust litigation before the European courts and national courts. We also regularly advise clients in abuse of dominance scenarios, including representing clients in administrative proceedings before the competition authorities in Europe as well before the European and national courts of the EU Member States.

We advise clients in cartel investigations run by the European Commission and/or national competition authorities, including advising on leniency, settlement cartel damages strategies.

We represent notifying parties or targets, or acting on behalf of third-party interveners, in merger control proceedings before the European Commission and national competition authorities, including advising on and handling/coordinating multi-jurisdictional filings.

We advise public authorities, private parties (including third parties) on all aspects of EU State aid laws and regulations.

We advise clients in the area of competition law compliance, in particular the set-up of internal competition compliance programmes. We have successfully run and devised competition law and dawn raid trainings in industry sectors such as chemicals, household consumer goods, consumer electronics, transport, steel, energy and agrochemicals.

We advise clients on EU Regulatory matters, in particular internal market matters in relation to the free movement of goods, capital, services and people.