Chambers Review
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Competition/European Law - Germany
What the Team is Known For
BLOMSTEIN has a broad competition law practice. The law firm frequently acts on merger clearance and foreign direct investment filings. Team members have experience of state aid mandates, as well as acting as monitoring trustees. On the behavioural side, the team often acts for technology sector clients on FCO investigations, and has further expertise in damages actions.
Strengths
Our experience was very smooth and we were very happy.
The team is always very eager to help us and is approachable.
BLOMSTEIN gives us pragmatic advice.
The firm offers excellent quality, is always responsive, provides superb advice, and the people are very nice to work with.
Work Highlights
BLOMSTEIN advised Bertelsmann on the competition law aspects of its sale of DDV to Madsack.
Notable practitioners
Anna Blume Huttenlauch has a broad competition law practice that covers merger clearance filings, state aid topics and damages actions. She has further experience in FCO investigations.
Anna Blume Huttenlauch is our go-to for merger control and distribution.
She is very approachable, pragmatic and highly motivated.
She is an excellent lawyer who can communicate complex matters in an easy and comprehensible way.
Anna Blume Huttenlauch is efficient, quick and nice to work with.
Max Klasse has a particular focus on merger control mandates, assisting clients with filings, as well as representing them in challenges to clearances and acting as a monitoring trustee to oversee commitments given when obtaining clearance decisions. He has additional experience in FDI filings. He further represents clients in FCO investigations and state aid mandates.
He always remains surprisingly calm even in very difficult situations and offers outstanding client service.