legalpartner.berlin advises on all aspects of competition law. Our partners in this field are highly experienced professionals.

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Advisory specialisms:

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• Merger control: review of notification requirements and risk assessments, merger control proceedings at the German Federal Cartel Office (), and coordination of notifications in other jurisdictions in association with local counsels.

• Cartel proceedings: representation of companies during cartel proceedings at the Federal Cartel Office and advice on leniency applications, holding of internal investigations during cartel proceedings initiated by the European Commission and the Federal Cartel Office in association with external service providers, e.g. KrollOntrack, coordination of defence strategies for submission to criminal prosecution authorities together with defence lawyers.

• Compliance: internal audits, including internal investigations together with external service providers, e.g. KrollOntrack, and staff interviews, advice on creating and implementing compliance programmes, including staff training.

• General competition-related advice: involvement in industry- associations and information exchange with competitors, structuring of sales systems and licensing strategies, formation of joint ventures and other cooperation arrangements, information exchange during M&A transactions, Federal Cartel Office sector investigations, market abuse, and defence/assertion of competition-related claims for compensation.

• Public procurement law: advice to bidders on public tenders from the selection procedure to submission of offer, subsequent checking of tenders, e.g. in connection with review procedures, close cooperation with public procurement law specialists (www.eichler-rechtsanwaelte.de) on joint projects.

 

Your contacts for competition law are

 

Jürgen Busch, Dr. Jan Valentin Deichsel  and Alexander von Kleist.