WilmerHale focuses on regulatory advice and litigation and counts large companies such as Meta as well as state-owned companies and state ministries among its client base. The team combines administrative and constitutional law skills with data protection and antitrust expertise and represents clients in related disputes before administrative courts and cartel offices as well as before the European Court of Justice; Hans-Georg Kamann regularly acts in regulatory disputes. He also provides regulatory advice on public digitisation and cultural projects and jointly heads the practice with Martin Seyfarth, who occasionally applies his policy-related administrative expertise in legislative procedures.
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Key clients
- Aeroxon Insect Control GmbH
- Deutsche Bahn AG
- Hessisches Ministerium der Finanzen
- Meta Platforms, Inc
- Stuttgart 21
- Syngenta Agro GmbH
Work highlights
- Representation of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in proceedings before the Federal Cartel Office and subsequently in the appeal proceedings before the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court against the Federal Cartel Office's prohibition decision of February 7, 2019 due to allegedly abusive data processing conditions, including handling data protection issues as co-counsel in the context of a complex, cross-court defense strategy.
- Merger control/antitrust, state aid and public law as well as contractual advice to the Hessian Ministry of Finance in connection with the establishment of the AI Quality & Testing Hub (AIQ), a joint venture between the state of Hessen and the Association of the Electrical Industry (VDE) for individually advising companies and organisations on the topic of AI quality and certification.
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Hans-Georg Kamann, Martin Seyfarth