Fabian Hübener, LLM (Georgetown)
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Associated Partner
Fabian Hübener is a Brussels-based associated 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.
Projects
- Representing a global automotive manufacturer in the European Commission’s cartel proceedings concerning end-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling
- Representing Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. as part of a consortium on the EUR 3.5 billion acquisition of leading life insurance consolidator Viridium
- Representing KPS Capital Partners/Speira in the conditional clearance of the acquisition of Real Alloy Europe by the European Commission
- Representing the global automotive supplier Lear Corporation in complex merger control proceedings before the European Commission and other competition authorities
- Representing PSA in preliminary ruling proceedings before the European Court of Justice on issues regarding access fees vehicle manufacturers may charge publishers for the exploitation of repair and maintenance information
- Representing Scania in preliminary ruling proceedings before the European Court of Justice concerning the scope and content of manufacturers’ obligations in providing vehicle, OBD, as well as repair and maintenance information
- Representing Volkswagen AG / Skoda Auto Deutschland GmbH in cartel proceedings concerning alleged restrictions on cross-border sales of new vehicles
- Representing a manufacturer of PVC products in ethylene cartel proceedings before the European Commission
- Representing a battery manufacturer in the car battery recycling cartel before the European Commission
Distinctions
- Lexology Index 2025 (formerly Who's Who Legal): "Future Leaders" Competition Law
My insights
Career
Memberships
- Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht
- The European Competition Lawyers Forum (ECLF)
Publications
- Potentielle Wirkungen und vertikale Beschränkungen - Anmerkung zu EuGH – Tallinna Kaubamaja Grupp, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, 2025
- Datenzugang über OBD-Schnittstelle – welche Rolle spielt die Fahrzeugsicherheit? GRUR-Prax 2025
- Zugang zu Fahrzeugreparatur- und -wartungsinformationen: Welche Rolle spielt das Kartellrecht?, Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht, 2024
- Anmerkung zum Urteil des EuG vom 18.10.2023, Az. T-590/20 - Zur Erhöhung des Grundbetrages einer Kartellbuße bei erneutem Begehen einer ähnlichen Zuwiderhandlung, EWiR 2024
- Das neue Recht der digitalen Märkte - Digital Markets Act (DMA), Nomos Verlag, 2023 (together with Jens Peter Schmidt)
- EuGH: Im Zweifel keine bezweckte Wettbewerbsbeschränkung bei Interbankenentgelten, in Recht der Zahlungsdienste, 2020, Editioon 3, p. 196
- Vertikale Mindestpreisbindungen im US- und EU-Recht, Die Auswirkungen des Leegin-Urteils des U.S. Supreme Court, in Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftspolitik, Nomos Verlag, 2016
- SEP or No SEP? Open questions after Huawei/ZTE, (with Moritz Jakobs), in E.C.L.R 2016, Edition 1, p 33
- A Practitioner´s View on the Role and Powers of National Competition Authorities (with Alexander Israel and Jan Lang), Study for the ECON Committee, 2016
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