Jana Dammann de Chapto > Latham & Watkins LLP > Dusseldorf, Germany > Lawyer Profile

Latham & Watkins LLP
DREISCHEIBENHAUS 1
40211 DUSSELDORF
Germany
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Position

Dr. Jana Dammann de Chapto advises international clients on merger control and foreign investment control.

Ms. Dammann de Chapto, as a key member of a client’s deal team, navigates the increasingly complex competition, merger control, and foreign investment control landscape in the EU and globally. She represents clients from a full spectrum of industries before the European Commission, national regulatory agencies, as well as before the German and European courts.

Her commercial work draws on her earlier scholarly work on merger control at the University of Hamburg, her PhD on comparative antitrust law, and her work at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. She regularly writes and speaks on foreign investment topics.

Lawyer Rankings

Deutschland > Kartellrecht > Kartellrecht

Latham & Watkins LLP verfügt über hohe fachliche Kompetenz in den Bereichen Digitalisierung und Technologie; hier war die Vertretung von Meta im Zuge der GWB/19a-Novelle sowie unter Berücksichtigung des Digital Market Acts ein bedeutendes Mandat. Weitere Stärken des Teams sind die Beratung zu Marktmachtmissbrauch und Kartellschadensersatz, wenngleich das Tätigkeitsspektrum zudem verhaltensbezogene Untersuchungen, die kartellrechtliche Prozessführung und die Beratung bei angeblichen Kartellrechtsverstößen beinhaltet. Abgerundet wird dies durch Kompetenzen in der kartellrechtlichen Transaktionsbegleitung, einschließlich FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) und FSR (Fusion Control Regulation). Zum Kernteam zählen der in kartellrechtlichen Streitigkeiten versierte Max Hauser, Litigator Michael Esser sowie Jan Christoph Höft (Fusionskontrolle und Kartellschadensabwehr). Die in der Fusions- und Investitionskontrolle versierte Jana Dammann de Chapto wurde im März 2024 in die Partnerriege aufgenommen.

Germany > Antitrust

Latham & Watkins LLP has a high level of expertise in the areas of digitisation and technology, where the representation of Meta in connection with the §19a GWB as well as the Digital Market Act was a significant mandate. Other mainstays include the advice on market power abuse matters and cartel damages compensation claims as well as internal investigations, antitrust litigation and the advice on alleged antitrust violations. This offering is complemented with expertise in transaction-related antitrust law, including FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) and FSR (Fusion Control Regulation). The key contacts include Max Hauser, who is experienced in cartel disputes, litigator Michael Esser and Jan Christoph Höft (merger control and defense against cartel damages claims). Jana Dammann de Chapto, who is experienced in merger and investment control, joined the partner roster in March 2024.