Our speakers - Competition Day 2026
Moderation
Fabian Badtke, LL.M.
Noerr | PartnerHead of Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control
Fabian Badtke heads the firm’s antitrust and competition group. He advises and represents national and international clients on all aspects of European and German antitrust law, including merger control and coordination of multi-jurisdictional filings, antitrust investigations, behavioural matters, antitrust litigation and compliance programmes. Fabian has particular industry know-how in the financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail and media sectors.
Keynote
Andreas Mundt
Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt)President
Andreas Mundt has been President of the Federal Cartel Office since 2009. From 2013 to May 2025 he was also Steering Group Chair of the International Competition Network (ICN). Andreas Mundt joined the Federal Cartel Office in 2000 and held various positions, including Rapporteur in the 8th Decision Division responsible for cases relating to the banking sector. In 2001 he became Head of the International Unit and in 2005 Head of the General Policy Division. After studying law and training as a lawyer in Bonn and Lausanne, Andreas Mundt started his career as a desk officer in the task force “New German Länder” at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs in 1991. From 1993 to 2000 he was a desk officer for labour and social law in the parliamentary group of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).
Panel discussion
A new age in cartel enforcement?
Sergio López
Von Wobeser y SierraPartner
Sergio López holds a law degree, with honors, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Since January 2023, he has been a Partner in the Competition Law practice at Von Wobeser y Sierra, S.C., where he leads the design and execution of highly complex, high-stakes antitrust strategies. He advises clients in sensitive investigations involving alleged anticompetitive conduct and develops comprehensive competition compliance, risk-assessment, and training programs tailored to sophisticated corporate environments. Before joining private practice, Sergio spent nearly two decades at Mexico’s competition authority, where he held senior leadership positions including Director General of Litigation, Technical Secretary, and Head of the Investigative Authority. In those roles, he stood on the front line of enforcement—defending landmark cases before the Federal Judiciary, shaping institutional strategy, and leading investigations across multiple sectors of the Mexican economy. This combination of senior enforcement experience and top-tier private practice allows Sergio to bring to his clients a uniquely strategic perspective: he understands not only how competition authorities build cases, but also how to anticipate enforcement priorities, manage regulatory risk, and navigate investigations with precision and credibility. Sergio is a frequent speaker at national and international antitrust forums and the author of several publications on competition law.
Irene Moreno-Tapia
CuatrecasasPartner
Irene Moreno-Tapia holds a Master in European Union Law, specializing in business law, from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Royal Institute of European Studies – RIEE, 1997), as well as a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (1996). Irene has successfully advised and represented many clients on defence of competition before the Spanish authorities, in both the administrative and litigation fields (e.g., agreements, abuse, concentrations, and state aid). She is also an expert in other areas of EU law, such as customs law, public procurement, European funds and food safety legislation. She has participated in many cases before the EU courts. She lectures on competition law in the Master in International Business Law at ESADE Business & Law School.
Dan Oakes
Axinn, Veltrop & HarkriderPartner
Recognized as a leading antitrust practitioner by Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States, Daniel Oakes takes a client-centered, analytical approach to defending companies and individuals against a range of Sherman Act Section 1 and Section 2 claims, including cartel, monopolization, no-poach, and other conspiracy allegations, as well as state competition claims. Dan advises clients in criminal investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and internationally. He has helped to persuade authorities to close investigations without taking enforcement action and has also helped clients through the process of securing leniency protection. Dan also has extensive experience with civil class action and direct action plaintiff follow-on litigation. Additionally, Dan has counseled many clients on a wide range of issues including analysis of potential mergers, transactions, business practices, and antitrust compliance. In mergers, Dan has coordinated responses to several second requests. He has also represented multiple clients in responding to government and third-party subpoenas and navigating merger litigation. With an ability to pivot with precision when dynamic complexities arise, Dan represents clients across a broad range of industries, including food and beverage, defense, technology, advertising, distribution, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, automobile parts, healthcare, and insurance. He leverages his past work experience as a managing analyst at consulting firm Compass Lexecon to craft legal arguments that are backed by a thorough economic analysis of the competitive landscape of these sectors.
Can Sarıçiçek, LL.M./MBL
ACTECONCounsel
Can Sarıçiçek is a lawyer who worked for the Turkish Competition Authority for 15 years. For the past 3 years before she left the authority, she served as the Deputy Head of Department specializing in digital markets. During her tenure at the Turkish Competition Authority, Can was engaged in numerous remarkable investigations, mergers and acquisitions, exemption/negative clearance assessments, commitment and settlement proceedings, and market investigations, mainly in digital markets, as well as in a wide range of sectors including telecoms, media, advertising, health, finance, banking, construction materials, transportation, and automotive. She holds an LL.M. degree from Freie Universität, Berlin, in European and International Business, Competition and Regulatory Law in 2020. She has been working at ACTECON for the last 2 years. Can also took an active role within the teams preparing and updating secondary legislation, particularly the Merger Regulation and the Block Exemption Communiqué on Vertical Agreements in the Motor Vehicles Sector. As the Deputy Head of Department, she took a leading role in the E-marketplaces Sector Inquiry. She led the team that prepared the draft amendment to the Turkish Competition Act to provide alignment with the DMA. She also participated in parliamentary proceedings. In addition, Can represented Türkiye at UNCTAD and the European Commission and by special invitation of the OECD, presented the E-marketplaces Sector Inquiry Report in a dedicated session.
Alexander Birnstiel, LL.M.
Noerr | PartnerMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Alexander Birnstiel advises German and international clients from a large number of industries (including automotive, chemicals, primary and reinsurance, financial services, generic drugs, real estate, IT, food retailing and production, media, pharmaceuticals, sport and steel) on all questions of German and European antitrust and competition law. He represents clients in cartel, abuse and merger control proceedings (including coordination of multijurisdictional filings) before the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission and national and European courts. He also advises clients on antitrust issues associated with digitalisation projects (including setting up and running internet platforms), the interface between antitrust and intellectual property, private enforcement and compliance issues and in dawn raid scenarios. In European State aid law, Alexander can refer to comprehensive experience and work both for the public sector and private clients (State aid beneficiaries and complainants) including in the area of regional State aid, rescue and restructuring aid and hospital financing.
Kathrin Westermann
Noerr | PartnerMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Kathrin Westermann is an experienced specialist in all aspects of German and European antitrust law. She represents clients of most diverse industries in cartel, abuse and merger control proceedings before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission as well as in court. She also has long lasting experience in dawn raid scenarios. In recent years, her practice is further focussed on claims for antitrust damages. Kathrin Westermann began her career 1997 in a major German law firm. In addition, she worked for four years at the German Federal Cartel Office.
Topic 1
Licensing negotiation groups and the growing importance of cooperation agreements between competitors
Prof. Peter Chrocziel
Advisor to licensing negotiation groupsPeter Chrocziel is both a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where he teaches patent, trademark, and competition law, and a practicing attorney. He has been admitted to the German Bar since 1983, as well as to the New York courts, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the US Court of International Trade. As a Certified Licensing Professional, he has over 30 years of experience in all areas of IP and IT law. Peter advises large international companies, particularly in the technology, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries, in enforcing their IP rights—especially in cross-border patent litigation. He is also specialized in antitrust counseling, both in licensing matters and court proceedings, and supports clients in worldwide IP transactions. He served as president of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Germany for five years and as president of LES International from 2005 to 2006. In 2018, he was named IP Lawyer of the Year for Germany.
Jochen Hegener, LL.M.
Noerr | Senior AssociateMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Jochen Hegener advises German and international clients on all aspects of German and European antitrust and competition law and European State aid law. His advice covers fields such as investigations and fine proceedings by the competition authorities (European Commission and the Federal Cartel Office), merger control proceedings, antitrust and competition-related compliance topics and matters involving State aid. He further focuses his advice on the intersection with intellectual property law. Jochen is a member of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control as well as the Digital Business practice groups.
Niclas A. Gajeck
Noerr | Associated PartnerMember of the Intellectual Property Practice Group
Niclas A. Gajeck litigates a wide range of complex patent disputes, with a particular focus on standard-essential patents (SEPs). Beyond litigation, his practice encompasses the intersection of IP and competition law, trade secret protection, and strategic licensing, including IP, AI and data licensing. Niclas' clients include government agencies and industry leaders in the telecommunications, automotive, and network technology sectors, ranging from car manufacturers to producers of consumer electronics and medical devices.
Topic 2
Renaissance of antitrust criminal law? – risks under criminal and criminal procedure law beyond the imposition of fines [held in German]
Maximilian Ohrloff
Noerr | PartnerMember of the Compliance & Investigations Practice Group
Maximilian Ohrloff specializes in white-collar criminal defense and compliance. He advises and represents companies and their executives in all areas of white-collar crime, regulatory offenses, and compliance. In addition to investigating and defending against allegations of fraud, embezzlement, corruption, and tax evasion, he has spent the past decade extensively involved in asset recovery, anti-money laundering, management liability in connection with criminal allegations, and international sanctions. Many of his matters have involved cross-border proceedings, often with FCPA and DOJ/SEC implications. In this context, Maximilian conducts internal investigations and advises on the implementation and enhancement of compliance management systems. Developing strategies and measures to mitigate liability risks arising from corporate decision-making represents another key focus of his practice.
Prof. Christian Pelz
Noerr | PartnerMember of the Compliance & Investigations Practice Group
Christian Pelz acts for German and international corporations, board members, senior management and private clients as defence counsel in all kinds of criminal and administrative offence investigations conducted by regulators, tax and customs investigators, prosecutors or courts. Christian defends and represents clients in national and international investigations, forfeiture and proceeds of crime proceedings, trials and before parliamentary commissions. He has particular experience in coordinating corporate and individual defence work as well as complex proceedings and litigation resulting from criminal or regulatory violations and involving criminal, civil, tax and/or regulatory proceedings. Christian also advises companies on all kinds of compliance issues. These include designing and implementing compliance programmes, developing compliance policies and guidelines, conducting compliance audits and handling compliance matters. He has extensive experience in internal investigations at a national and international level. Christian also helps corporations investigate and enforce damage claims resulting from criminal offences or other misconduct by business partners, board members and employees.
Paula Link
Noerr |Senior AssociateMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Paula Link advises domestic and foreign clients in all areas of German and European antitrust and competition law as well as European State aid law. She focuses on investigations and fine proceedings by the competition authorities (European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office), merger control proceedings, antitrust and competition-related compliance issues and State aid issues.
Topic 3
Distribution-related antitrust and competition law 2026 – perennial issues and latest trends, including HR topics
Fabian Hübener, LL.M.
Noerr | PartnerMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Fabian Hübener is a Brussels-based partner specialising in EU antitrust law. He advises national and international clients on a broad range of antitrust, merger control and FDI matters. Over the past decade, he has been involved in several high-profile cases before the European Commission, national competition authorities and the European Court of Justice. His practice also focuses on the antitrust assessment of distribution models, with a strong track record in the automotive sector. He has significant experience in enforcing antitrust damages claims. Fabian is the co-author of a legal commentary on the Digital Markets Act and regularly publishes on key developments in antitrust law.
Bastian Müller, LL.B.
Noerr | Senior AssociateMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Bastian Müller is a lawyer in Noerr's Brussels office. He advises on all matters of European and German antitrust law. This includes antitrust investigations and administrative fine proceedings as well as market power abuse proceedings of the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. In addition, he advises on M&A merger control. Bastian Müller also advises on distribution cartel law issues. In particular, he focuses on the evaluation and design of distribution structures and cooperations in compliance with antitrust law.
Topic 4
From trucks to tech: cartel damages and private enforcement of digital market regulations across Europe
Rick Cornelissen
HouthoffPartner
Rick Cornelissen is a partner in the Litigation & Arbitration practice group at Houthoff in Amsterdam. He is heading Houthoff's Competition Litigation Team, and has market-leading experience in a wide range of complex, multiparty cross-border disputes. He mainly acts as defence counsel for corporate institutions with a particular focus on follow-on civil antitrust litigation and other types of mass claims and class action litigation. Legal 500 has recognized Rick as a Leading Individual in the field of Class Actions. He also advises on and litigates contractual and other competition law disputes in civil proceedings, including disputes on access to distribution networks and the performance and termination of contracts. Rick teaches at the Grotius Academy (competition and liability) and is a member of the Dutch Association for European Law, the Dutch Competition Law Association, the Dutch Distribution, Franchise and Agency Association and the Lex Mundi Antitrust Competition and Trade Practice Group and the Lex Mundi Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He frequently speaks and lectures on class actions and civil competition litigation.
Caja Griesenbach
MacfarlanesPartner
Caja Griesenbach is a partner in the Competition team at Macfarlanes in London. She specialises in UK and European competition law, advising on transactions, behavioural investigations and private enforcement actions. Caja advises clients across a broad range of industries on UK and EU competition law, with experience spanning merger control, regulatory investigations and competition litigation. She regularly supports businesses on complex transactions, guiding them through substantive competition issues and global investment screening regimes. Caja previously spent time on secondment to the Mergers unit of the UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA). In addition to her transactional work, Caja represents clients in contentious competition matters, including investigations into alleged anti-competitive agreements and abuses of dominance. She also has extensive experience advising on private damages actions arising from alleged antitrust infringements.
Peter Stauber, LL.M.
Noerr | PartnerMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Peter Stauber has vast experience in handling and coordinating parallel merger control proceedings (multi-jurisdictional filings) worldwide. He also advises companies on antitrust law compliance matters, ranging from the establishment of compliance systems, internal investigations to follow-up measures such as the filing of leniency applications and advice on antitrust proceedings. Peter also advises companies on judicially enforcing and defending against antitrust claims (private enforcement).
Sebastian Wrobel, LL.M.
Noerr | Senior AssociateMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Sebastian Wrobel advises clients on all aspects of German and European antitrust and competition law. Sebastian specialises in antitrust damages litigation and defends clients against complex follow-on and standalone claims before German courts. In addition, he has experience asserting antitrust damages claims. Sebastian also represents companies in proceedings concerning the ban on cartels, abuse of dominance and merger control before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission as well as in court. Further, Sebastian assists clients with antitrust-related compliance issues and internal investigations.
Panel discussion
Trends in international merger control – evolving thresholds and dynamic effects amid geopolitical shifts
Ingrid Hodgskiss
Travers SmithPartner
Ingrid Hodgskiss is a Partner in Travers Smith's Competition Department. She acts for clients on a wide range of UK and EU competition law matters, covering UK, EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control matters, UK national security and foreign direct investment reviews, behavioural competition law matters, and competition follow-on damages litigation. Ingrid has led on a number of significant UK merger control instructions, including two CMA Phase 2 investigations in recent years. Ingrid has experience across a range of industry sectors, including technology, financial services, retail and consumer goods, infrastructure, life sciences, insurance, and maritime shipping. Prior to joining Travers Smith, Ingrid was a legal advisor to the UK Competition & Markets Authority. Ingrid is recognised by clients and peers as a "Next Generation Partner" in Legal 500.
Jonathan Klarfeld
Ropes & GrayPartner
Jonathan Klarfeld, based in Washington, D.C., leads Ropes & Gray’s antitrust practice and is recognized as a leading antitrust strategist with deep experience in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. He brings clients the benefit of more than two decades of distinguished experience in antitrust enforcement, investigations, and litigation, with a particular focus on healthcare transactions and regulatory matters. Before joining Ropes & Gray in 2014, Jonathan spent more than 13 years at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition in Washington, D.C., where he held senior leadership roles and directed many significant merger investigations and enforcement actions. His deep insight into the antitrust review process, consent negotiations, and litigation strategy enables him to deliver sophisticated, practical guidance on complex healthcare and cross-industry transactional matters.
Stephan Purps, LL.M.
BASFDirector Legal – Corporate
Stephan Purps is a member of the Corporate Tegal Team at BASF and heads its antitrust practice group. He advises on all aspects of antitrust law, both in the area of behavioural antitrust law and on transactional issues. Before joining BASF, Stephan worked as a lawyer at a major international law firm in Cologne and Berlin for ten years, also in the field of antitrust law.
Thorsten Schiffer
European Commission, Directorate-General for CompetitionCase Handler
Thorsten Schiffer has been a case handler for the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) unit for merger control in the energy and environmental sectors since 2022. He also handles cases in the telecommunications, media, and IT sectors (most recently Adobe/Figma). Since early 2025, he has been a member of DG COMP’s working group on the reform of the EU Merger Guidelines. Prior to joining DG COMP, he worked from 2015 to 2022 as a lawyer at two of the leading competition law firms in Brussels, where he was involved in merger cases such as Siemens/Alstom, Google/Fitbit, Veolia/Suez, and Lufthansa/Air Berlin Assets. He studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), and King's College London.
Jens Peter Schmidt
Noerr | PartnerHead of Brussels Office and Member of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Global rankings recognize Jens Peter Schmidt as a leading antitrust and competition expert. During his 25 years as a legal practitioner, he has focused on M&A merger control, foreign direct investment control (FDI), foreign subsidy control and antitrust/regulatory issues associated with the digital economy (e.g. DMA). Jens Peter advises on the antitrust-compliant structuring of cooperations and distribution systems, and state aid. He heads NOERR’s Brussels office. Prior to joining NOERR, he was the Brussels office managing partner and co-head of the European antitrust practice of an international US law firm.
Topic 5
Will the ECJ permit internal recourse for antitrust fines? How antitrust compliance and D&O insurance can protect management [held in German]
Gordon Christian
Siemens EnergyPrincipal Counsel Competition
Gordon Christian is Principal Counsel Competition at Siemens Energy in Munich (Germany). In this position, Gordon advises Siemens Energy on a worldwide basis on all aspects of Competition Law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, collaborative and other horizontal and vertical arrangements, cartel investigations, antitrust-related corporate governance and compliance, competition litigation and state aid matters. Gordon also advises on foreign direct investment (FDI) matters as well as on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Gordon’s experience covers the complete range of the Siemens Energy product and services portfolio. Gordon is part of the team that won “Best Competition Team” at the Lexology European Counsel Awards 2024 in London in March 2024. Gordon graduated from the University of Exeter, and he is immediate past co-lead of the Regionalgruppe München of, and is an ordinary member of, the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (German Antitrust Lawyers' Association), the Münchner Kartellrechtsforum (Munich Antitrust Law Forum) and the Forum Investitionsprüfung (German FDI Law Forum). Gordon also co-leads the ICC Taskforce on Antitrust Compliance, and co-authored the recently updated edition of the ICC Antitrust Compliance Toolkit. Gordon is also a member of the Competition Law Committee of the German Federal Bar (Mitglied im Ausschuss Kartellrecht der Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer). Gordon has published a number of articles in specialist journals about antitrust and compliance, and has also appeared on various specialist podcasts on similar topics.
Lorenz W. Jarass
Noerr | Associated PartnerMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Lorenz Jarass is an Associated Partner at the firm’s antitrust and competition group. He advises and represents national and international clients on all aspects of European and German antitrust law, including merger control and coordination of multi-jurisdictional filings, antitrust investigations, behavioural matters, antitrust litigation and compliance programmes. Furthermore, Lorenz has a strong focus on German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) control matters. In addition, Lorenz is co-responsible for all legal tech issues in the antitrust and competition practice group.
Oliver Sieg
Noerr | PartnerHead of the Corporate Litigation Practice Group
Oliver Sieg is a partner in Noerr’s Düsseldorf office and head of the Corporate Litigation practice group. For many years, he has been recognised as an expert in advising companies and board members on matters of governance, directors’ and officers’ liability, and D&O insurance, particularly in the aftermath of cartel fines. In addition, Oliver has advised and represented cartel participants in the past in defending themselves against follow-on claims, both in court and in the context of settlement negotiations.
Topic 6
EU defence and industrial policy: current developments and legal implications for cooperation agreements and M&A transactions [held in German]
Thorsten Käseberg, LL.M.
Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE)Head of Division for Basic Issues of Competition Policy,
Antitrust Law, Competition Policy Issues of Digitalization
Thorsten Käseberg is a jurist and economist and has been a government official at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) since 2007. Since 2017, he has served as the head of the department “Grundsatzfragen der Wettbewerbspolitik, Kartellrecht, wettbewerbspolitische Fragen der Digitalisierung” (Fundamental principles of competition policy, antitrust law and competition policy issues of digitalisation). Previously, he headed departments at the BMWE related to digital policy. From 2009 to 2011, he worked on merger control as a (seconded) EU official at the European Commission Directorate General for Competition. Thorsten has lectured at various universities and published particularly on economics and regulatory issues. In 2012, Hart Publishing in Oxford released his book “Intellectual Property, Antitrust and Cumulative Innovation in the EU and the US”. He studied at the University of Bonn, Humboldt University in Berlin, the London School of Economics and New York University.
Martin Möllmann
Airbus Defense & SpaceSenior Legal Counsel
Martin Möllmann works as Senior Legal Counsel for Airbus Defence & Space GmbH. In this role, he is responsible, among other things, for negotiating contracts with the German Federal Ministry of Defence as well as consortium agreements for European research and development projects, particularly under the European Defence Fund. After obtaining degrees in European law from the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the College of Europe, he completed his legal training at the Paris Bar School in 2014. He then began his career in the Brussels office of international US law firms as a member of both the Paris and Brussels Bars, advising clients from a range of industries in antitrust proceedings before national authorities in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as before EU institutions and the Court of Justice of the European Union. In 2018, he returned to France to lead internal compliance investigations from Airbus Group headquarters and to serve as Chief of Staff to the Airbus Chief Compliance Officer. In 2024, he moved to Munich to take up his current position.
Sven Betzendörfer, LL.M.
Noerr | Senior AssociateMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Sven Betzendörfer is a lawyer in NOERR’s Brussels office. His practice covers all aspects of European and German antitrust and competition law, foreign direct investment (FDI) control, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), and European State aid law. Sven specializes in complex cross-border merger control, FDI and FSR reviews. He also has significant experience representing clients in antitrust investigations and administrative fine proceedings, conducting internal investigations, and advising on antitrust-compliant structuring of distribution systems and cooperations.
Stefanie Gschoßmann
Noerr | Senior AssociateMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Stefanie Gschoßmann advises German and international clients on all aspects of German and European antitrust and competition law. This includes merger control proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission, cartel and abuse of dominant position proceedings as well as the private enforcement of cartel damages claims. Stefanie also advises on all aspects of European state aid law, in particular, the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. In addition, she represents clients with regard to foreign investment control (FDI) proceedings. Stefanie is a member of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control as well as the International Trade and Investment Controls practice group.
Topic 7
Compliance strategies in the age of AI – minimising risks under antitrust and competition law, recognising liability traps
Clemens Hufeld
NoxtuaVice President Legal Data
Clemens Hufeld is a lecturer at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) and Vice President of Legal Data at legal tech company Noxtua AG. He studied law, English, computer science and environmental studies at LMU and is currently pursuing a PhD on the digitalisation of legal education. His research focuses on the objectivity of law exams and the use of artificial intelligence in assessment formats. Alongside his role at Noxtua, he heads the Benchmarking Working Group of the Legal Tech Association, an industry association that promotes the digitalisation and modernisation of the German legal market. He is also a co founder of the Munich Legal Tech Student Association.
Markus Brösamle
Noerr | Associated PartnerMember of the Antitrust & Competition and Merger Control Practice Group
Markus Brösamle advises in all areas of German and European antitrust law. He is active in the area of cartel damages as well as in advising on all aspects of antitrust law in the context of M&A projects (e.g. merger control proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission; antitrust feasibility analysis; drafting of contracts; coordination of multinational filings). In addition, Markus advises on all aspects of antitrust matters in the operative business (e.g. cooperation between competitors; abuse of market power; vertical cooperation; antitrust compliance). He also represents companies in antitrust investigations.