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Christoph Barth

Partner, Antitrust & Foreign Investment, Düsseldorf

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Testimonial
“Few deals today close without a maze of regulatory hurdles. My job is to clear that maze. I guide strategic and financial investors through the merger control, foreign investment and FSR workstreams of their most complex M&A transactions – across jurisdictions, from a single source. Beyond M&A, I defend clients in cartel and abuse of dominance proceedings and help them build compliance that holds up when it matters. What keeps me curious is finding smarter ways to run the hardest cases: that is why I invest just as much energy in efficiency, technology and AI as I do in understanding the business of my clients and the law itself.”

Overview

Christoph is a partner in Linklaters' Global Antitrust & Foreign Investment Practice in Düsseldorf. 

He guides strategic and financial investors through the regulatory workstreams of their M&A transactions – merger control, foreign investment control and proceedings under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation – from a single source and across jurisdictions, drawing on more than fifteen years of experience in some of the most complex global cases, including a seven-month secondment to Linklaters' Beijing office. 

Alongside this core focus, he advises on cartel and abuse of dominance proceedings before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office, internal investigations and antitrust compliance, and represents clients in competition litigation. 

He is a member of Linklaters' German "crisis management" group. Christoph is HR Partner for Linklaters in Germany and a member of the firm's Global People Committee. 

He is passionate about efficiency, technology and AI, constantly looking for smarter ways to handle his clients' most complex matters.

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Beyond the Office

He is a member of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht (Study Association Competition/Antitrust Law), German-Chinese Lawyer Association, American Bar Association Antitrust Section and American Law and Economics Association and a board member of Forum Investitionsprüfung (Forum Foreign Investment Control).

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Education, Qualifications and Languages

Christoph joined Linklaters in 2012 and became Managing Associate in 2016. He was elected Partner in 2019. 

He studied law and economics at the University of Bonn. 

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