Bastian Müller
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Associate
Antitrust & Competition
Dr 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.
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Career
Legal studies at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Germany) and the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Research assistant at Noerr in the field of antitrust law as well as at other international commercial law firms in Frankfurt a.M. and Hamburg in the areas of antitrust law, distribution law as well as compliance and internal investigations
Doctorate in Law at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Germany)
Traineeship at Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg with stations at an international commercial law firm in the field of dispute resolution in Hamburg, the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) in Brussels and the in-house antitrust department of Siemens AG in Munich
Admitted to the Hamburg Chamber of Lawyers
Joined Noerr in 2023
Memberships
- Member German Association for the Study of Antitrust Law
Publications
- On increasing the basic amount of a cartel fine for a repeat offence of a similar infringement, in: Entscheidungen des Wirtschaftsrechts (EWiR) 2024, 62 (mit Dr. Fabian Hübener)
- Author of the chapter "Commercial agency distribution", in: Handbook of EU Block Exemption Regulations (ed. Liebscher/Flohr/Petsche/Metzlaff) 3rd edition 2023
- Co-author on §§ 1 GWB, Art. 101 TFEU, the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation and the Horizontal Guidelines, in: Kommentar Vertriebsrecht (ed. Flohr/Wauschkuhn) 3rd edition 2023
- Commercial agency privilege in EU antitrust law, 2022 (Duncker&Humblot)
- Statement as part of the consultation process for the amendment of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation by the EU Commission, submitted in September 2021, available on the website of the Directorate-General for Competition
- Amendment of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation enters the next phase, in: Zeitschrift für Vertriebsrecht (ZVertriebsR) 2020, 341 (with Prof. Dr. Karsten Metzlaff)
- Cartel damages for shareholders of a cartel-injured AG?, in: Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (WuW) 2018, 602 (with Dr. Philipp Engelhoven)
- Admissibility of platform bans for non-luxury products?, in: Entscheidungen des Wirtschaftsrechts (EWiR) 2018, 605 (with Hanna Wiedenhaus)
- On the determination of damages in the context of an action against cartel infringements, in: Entscheidungen des Wirtschaftsrechts (EWiR) 2016, 613
- Liability of cartel intermediaries for cartel offences, in: Entscheidungen des Wirtschaftsrechts (EWiR) 2016, 123
- Attribution of behaviour of a commercial agent in breach of antitrust law, in: Entscheidungen des Wirtschaftsrechts (EWiR) 2015, 783