Competition, EU & Trade; Compliance

Partner 

With comprehensive expertise, Manuel advises clients on German and European competition law. His practice includes cross-border mergers, proceedings by competition authorities, competition litigation (in particular cartel damages), competition compliance, internal audits, distribution systems and agreements, as well as co-operations between companies. He represents clients in proceedings before the Federal Cartel Office, the European Commission and in court. His successful management of large-scale projects and his consulting activities in Europe and Asia are part of his professional competence and portfolio. Manuel is a renowned expert when it comes to questions of competition law relating to the digital economy. A further focus of his expertise is in consumer goods and retail, energy, innovative industries, advertising and media. Manuel Nagel studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn. He passed his first state examination in 2004. In 2005, he was awarded an LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Law by the European University Institute, Florence. During his legal clerkship, he worked for the German Federal Cartel Office and the First Cartel Senate of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. After his second state examination, he worked as a lawyer in the antitrust department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Cologne from 2009 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been a partner leading the competition practice of Taylor Wessing in Düsseldorf.

Manuel Nagel regularly publishes articles and gives lectures on competition law. He is co-author of the Münchener Kommentar zum Europäischen und Deutschen Wettbewerbsrecht. He runs the first German podcast on competition law “Competition Cast”.

2014 University of St. Gallen – School of Management, Economics, Law, Social Sciences and International Affairs, Summer School in Management 2008 Second state examination, Düsseldorf 2006 – 2008 Legal clerkship, Regional Court of Cologne including stages at the Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office), the Cologne office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the First Cartel Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf 2004 – 2005 M. in Comparative, European and International Law, European University Institute, Florence 2004 First state examination, Münster 1999 – 2004 Legal Studies, American Studies and Political Science, Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität, Bonn