Raue maintains a broad approach to competition matters, handling merger control and FDI proceedings, overseeing compliance programmes and acting for clients bringing on follow-on damages claims against cartel participants domestically and at the European level. Michael Bergmann heads up the group, with a practice centred on cartel damages proceedings, while Alexander Schwarzkopf advises on the spectrum of German and European competition law issues.
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Accolades
Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge
Key clients
- Funke Medien Niedersachsen GmbH
- DB Barnsdale AG
- Silent Disco Germany
- Wirtschaftliche Vereinigung Zucker e.V.
- Volocopter
- Sonae Arauco Deutschland GmbH
- Berlin Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment/Brandenburg Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Planning
Work highlights
Provided the Federal States of Berlin and Brandenburg with advice on competition and public procurement law in the ongoing tender process for the procurement, maintenance and operation of trains for Germany’s largest urban rail network.
Defended Funke Media Group against claims by the German Journalists' Association regarding alleged undercutting of minimum freelance fees set by collective agreements, after the Regional Court of Hanover initially found in favour of the DJV.
Represented DB Barnsdale AG in a cartel damages claim against the air freight cartel.
Practice head
Michael Bergmann
Other key lawyers
Benedikt Schwarzkopf