Dr Johannes Dittrich

As Head of Risk Advisory Europe, Johannes supports corporates, financial institutions and financial sponsors in the rapidly changing regulatory and geopolitical environment by identifying and effectively managing their legal and compliance risks.

He works closely with our Global Risk Advisory team and legal practices to develop comprehensive and tailor-made solutions and implement governance and organisational structures, processes and control mechanisms to effectively manage legal and compliance risks.

He also works closely with the Crisis Management & Compliance teams which regularly support clients in the areas of preventive compliance advice, crisis management and internal and regulatory investigations.

Before joining Linklaters Johannes was Chief Compliance Officer at Vitesco Technologies for several years. Prior to that, he spent over ten years as an in-house lawyer and compliance officer in global leading positions for Linde, BSH Hausgeräte (Home Appliances) and MAN, focusing on legal compliance, data protection and antitrust.

Johannes studied law at the universities of Erlangen, Heidelberg and Freiburg, completing his First State Examination in 2003. He then undertook his legal traineeship at the High Court of Nürnberg, passing his Second State Examination in 2005. During his studies and traineeship, he gained international experience through various internships in Germany and abroad.

He speaks German, English and French.

Recent publications of Johannes include:

• Antitrust Compliance“ & „Internal Investigations“ in Kamann/Völcker/Ohlhoff, Kartellverfahren und Kartellprozess, 2nd edition 2024, Beck-Verlag, Munich (coauthor: Dr. Tobias Klemm-Ruf)

• „Antitrust Compliance" in Moosmayer/Lösler, Corporate Compliance, 4th edition 2024, Beck-Verlag, Munich (co-author: Dr. Philip Matthey)
• Editorial: Antitrust law and bricks-and-mortar retail - more entrepreneurial freedom instead of a ‘online’ tax, NZKart 2021, 205
• Report from the merger front - Challenges of complex merger control proceedings in multinational transactions from an in-house perspective, NZKart 2020, 407
• No ‘resale price fixing’ - compliance in the area of vertical antitrust law, CCZ 2019, 178
• Antitrust Compliance“ and „Internal Investigations“ in Kamann/Völcker/Ohlhoff, Kartellverfahren und Kartellprozess, 2017, Beck-Verlag, Munich (co-author: Dr. Philip Matthey)
• „Antitrust Compliance“ in Hauschka/Moosmayer/Lösler, Corporate Compliance, 3^rd edition 2016, Beck-Verlag, Munich (co-author: Dr. Philip Matthey)
• Antitrust law: Special area of compliance work, CCZ 2015, 209
• Compliance defence in antitrust law, NZKart 2014, 485 (co-author: Dr. Petra Linsmeier)

• Comment on decision of the German Federal Court: Eligibility of indirect purchasers from a cartel and admissibility of ‘passing-on defence’ – ORWI, LMK 2012, 327348 (co-author: Dr. Matthias Haas)
• Relic of an independent national antitrust law - the exemption for ‘SME cartels’ pursuant to Section 3 GWB, WuW 2009, 1006
• The passing-on defence and the eligibility of indirect purchasers from a cartel, GRUR 2009, 123
• Horizontal cooperations of SMEs,, Duncker & Humblot Verlag, Berlin, 2009