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Bernd Meyring

Bernd Meyring

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

Competition: EU

Belgium

6 years ranked

Competition/European Law: Lawyers Based Abroad

Germany

9 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Bernd leads Linklaters’ Global Antitrust and Foreign Investment Team. He is a senior European competition lawyer, advising major national and international corporates, banks and institutions on all areas of competition and foreign direct investment laws, principally merger and anti-cartel related proceedings before the European Commission and national authorities, as well as unilateral conduct and state aid matters. He often coordinates merger control and foreign direct investment proceedings worldwide on global transactions. He has acted in a wide range of regulators in and outside Europe and conducted proceedings in English, French, German and Dutch.

Bernd is an experienced litigator and has represented clients in more than hundred cases before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Bernd co-heads the firm’s global automotive sector team and is a professor for competition law at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Please visit the Linklaters website for more details of Bernd Meyring and his work in this category: https://www.linklaters.com/find-a-lawyer/bernd-meyring

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Chambers Global Guide

Competition: EU - Belgium

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Bernd Meyring heads the firm's global antitrust and foreign investment group and is admitted to practice in Germany and in Belgium. He is known for his work on behalf of third-party interveners in abuse of dominance cases and for assisting clients in appealing European Commission decisions. He also assists with merger and FDI filings. He is particularly popular with clients in the technology sector.

Competition/European Law: Lawyers Based Abroad - Germany

Expertise Based Abroad
Germany, expertise based abroad in Belgium

Individual Editorial

Bernd Meyring heads the firm's global antitrust and foreign investment group and is admitted to practice in Germany and in Belgium. He is known for his work on behalf of third-party interveners in abuse of dominance cases and for assisting clients in appealing European Commission decisions. He also assists with merger and FDI filings. He is particularly popular with clients in the technology sector.

Competition: EU - Belgium

Foreign Expert
Foreign expert in Germany

Individual Editorial

Bernd Meyring heads the firm's global antitrust and foreign investment group and is admitted to practice in Germany and in Belgium. He is known for his work on behalf of third-party interveners in abuse of dominance cases and for assisting clients in appealing European Commission decisions. He also assists with merger and FDI filings. He is particularly popular with clients in the technology sector.

Strengths

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  • He is one of the absolute best EU competition lawyers.

    Competition: EUChambers Global Guide
  • He is really impressive and all the work is delivered on time despite the fact he is very busy.

    Competition: EUChambers Global Guide
  • Whenever we brief him about a new matter, he not only immediately asks the right questions but immediately comes up with an excellent idea how to tackle the matter.

    Competition: EUChambers Global Guide
  • Whenever we brief him about a new matter, he not only immediately asks the right questions but immediately comes up with an excellent idea of how to tackle the matter.

    Competition/European Law: Lawyers Based AbroadChambers Global Guide
  • He is one of the absolute best EU competition lawyers.

    Competition/European Law: Lawyers Based AbroadChambers Global Guide
  • He is really impressive and all the work is delivered on time, despite the fact that he is very busy.

    Competition/European Law: Lawyers Based AbroadChambers Global Guide

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