Profession
Rechtsanwalt
Experience
Main areas of practice include EU and German merger control, multi-jurisdictional filings, joint ventures, cartels, monopolies, and state aid. Represents clients before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Courts and German Courts. Particular expertise in the steel, automotive, media, sport, transport, healthcare, financial services and chemical sectors. Lecturer on EU Competition Law at the Institute for Law and Finance in Frankfurt (LL.M. Financé); Member of the Board of the German competition law association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht); advisor to the International Competition Network, which comprises more than 100 competition authorities world-wide, on German and European Competition Law.
Professional experience
2001 to date Partner, Linklaters Brussels/Düsseldorf
1997 - 2000 Partner, Oppenhoff & Rädler, Brussels
1994 - 1996 Junior Partner, Oppenhoff & Rädler, Düsseldorf
1991 - 1993 Associate, Oppenhoff & Rädler, Brussels
Education
1991 - Dr. jur., Doctorate, University of Konstanz
1990 - Second Legal State Examination
1987 - Master of Arts (Political Science), University of Mississippi
1986 - First Legal State Examination
1981 - 1986 Universities of Münster, and Lausanne, Switzerland
Languages
English, French, German
