Bernhard Kofler-Senoner

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition

Compliance & Investigations

Distribution Law

Mergers & Acquisitions

Career

Bernhard is a partner at CERHA HEMPEL. With 20 years’ experience in the area of competition law, he heads the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice Group comprising lawyers from its office in Vienna and its CEE offices. Bernhard is renowned for his know-how in complex (Phase II) merger control proceedings and high profile cartel proceedings at the EU and national level – this especially includes on-site advice during dawn raids. He has vast experience in designing and implementing compliance management systems and in establishing national and international distribution networks with a special focus on the tech sector. He also advises clients on damage claims that are made following competition law infringements.

Professional Memberships

Vienna Bar

IBA

Member of the „Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht“

Publications

Numerous publications on Austrian and European antitrust law and regularly publishes on competition law developments (e.g. Europe competing with China and the USA, 2019; The assessment of vertical price fixing by the German Federal Cartel Office, 2018; Austria Asphalt: A landmark decision on EU merger control, 2017).

Personal

Admitted to the Austrian Bar in 2006; Fordham University (LL.M. 2002), Fulbright Scholarship; Robert Schuman Prize; University of Innsbruck (Mag. iur. 1999, Dr. iur. 2001).

Languages Spoken

German, English