Fabian Badtke, LLM (Cambridge)
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Partner
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.
Projects
- DAF Trucks / Paccar
Defence against numerous antitrust damages claims brought before German courts - ICON
$12bn acquisition of PRA Health Sciences - RIB Software
€1.4bn public takeover bid by Schneider Electric - Fresenius/Helios
Advising on €3bn acquisition of 40 hospitals and 13 medical care centres from Rhoen Klinikum - Fresenius Kabi
Implementation of a Europe-wide antitrust compliance program - ThyssenKrupp
Advising on internal compliance investigations - ABN AMRO
Acquisition of Credit Suisse's private banking business in Germany
Distinctions
- JUVE Handbook Antitrust Law
Frequently recommended lawyer for antitrust law (on-going since 2017; “really good, very pragmatic” [client], “ambitious and dedicated” [competitor]) - GCR Competition Review – Who’s Who Legal: Competition – Future Leaders
Frequently recommended (“really impressive for merger filings” and also “well known for his strong antitrust practice, receiving international endorsements for his work on complex cartel damages claims”) - JUVE Handbook Healthcare Antitrust Law
Recommended advisor for healthcare antitrust law (2021/2022; “very satisfied, excellent lawyer in whom we have great confidence” [client]) - WirtschaftsWoche Antitrust & Competition Law
Top lawyer for antitrust and competition (2021) - Handelsblatt Antitrust Law
Frequently listed as an “antitrust law expert” - Humboldt-University of Berlin
Prize for the best dissertation in competition law, corporate law and intellectual property rights (2008; awarded to Fabian Badtke)
My insights
Career
Legal studies at the Universities of Potsdam and Cambridge, (UK) (LL.M.) and at the Humboldt-University of Berlin
2014
Secondment to Deutsche Bank
Experience as a lawyer in a law firm specialising in medical law in Berlin
2007
Joined Noerr
2006
Admitted to the Berlin Chamber of Lawyers
Memberships
- American Bar Association (ABA), Antitrust Section
- Member of the antitrust research association Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht
- KartellrechtsForum Frankfurt am Main
- International Bar Association (IBA)
Lectures
- Regular activity as moderator and speaker at the annual Noerr Competition Day
- Regular live-webinars on antitrust litigation, antitrust compliance and distribution law
Publications
- Antitrust in the financial services sector, Bankrecht, 6th ed. 2022, Carl Heymanns Verlag
- Antitrust and R&D agreements, Verträge über Forschung und Entwicklung, 3rd ed. 2018, Carl Heymanns Verlag
- Wer zahlt Kartellbußen? – Bundesarbeitsgericht zur Managerhaftung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 28/06/2017, Recht und Steuern
- Aktuelle Entwicklungen beim Akteneinsichtsrecht in Wettbewerbsverfahren (with Jan Moritz Lang), Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (WuW 2016)
- Should the Acquisition of Non-controlling Minority Shareholdings be Treated as Concentra-tions? (with Rea Diamantatou), Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2016, Vol. 7
- Kollektive Marktbeherrschung im Kraftstoffmarkt? (with Dr Oliver Vahrenholt), Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht (ZWeR), 2012
- Die Bedeutung des Kartellrechts bei M&A-Transaktionen, Kölner Schrift zum Wirtschaftsrecht (KSzW), 2011
- Das Kartellrecht und die aktuelle Debatte um die Laufzeitverlängerung von Atomkraftwerken – eine kritische Würdigung (with Oliver Vahrenholt), Wettbewerb in Recht und Praxis (WRP) 2010
- Der “Rhön-Beschluss” des BGH – endlich Klarheit bei der Zusammenschlusskontrolle von Krankenhausfusionen?, Zeitschrift für das gesamte Krankenhausrecht (KHR), 2008
- Die Anwendbarkeit der deutschen und europäischen Fusionskontrolle auf Zusammenschlüsse von Krankenhäusern, Nomos Verlag, 2008
- Die kartellrechtliche Bewertung des “AOK-Modells” beim Abschluss von Rabattverträgen, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (WuW), 2007
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