Dentons

Competition and Antitrust

Dr. Jörg Karenfort, LL.M. (LSE), is and ESG Specialist and Global Head of the Competition and Antitrust practice group (Berlin/Brussels). He advises clients in European and German competition and regulatory matters. Jörg has comprehensive expertise in dealing with German and European merger control as well as in cartel and abuse of dominance proceedings before European and national competition authorities and courts. He also advises national and international companies and trade associations in connection with ESG  issues and regulatory proceedings both at national and EU level. Jörg is an experienced litigator in complex competition cases and an expert for complex settlement matters. His comprehensive sector expertise covers automotive, banking, energy, TMT as well as life sciences. Jörg is a lecturer on EU and German Competition Law at the University of Potsdam and regularly publishes on EU and national competition and regulatory matters.

Jörg is CEO and one of the founders of YUVEDO Foundation—an organization that aims to eliminate Parkinson’s disease from the list of incurable diseases by 2032.

Partner, Dentons (formerly Salans), 2007 to date WilmerHale, 1999-2007

Member, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht Member, Constitution and Public Law section of DAJV Member, Steering Committee for Telecoms, Internet and Media, AmCham in Germany

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 1999

Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1998, Dr. iur.

Legal clerkship, 1997-1999, Berlin

Paris Institute of Political Studies, 1997, Sciences Po

London School of Economics and Political Science, 1996, LL.M.

Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1989-1994, Legal studies