Marc Besen

Practice Areas

Marc Besen specialises in EC and German competition law, particularly mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cartels, abuse proceedings, compliance programmes, distribution and licensing arrangements across a wide range of industry sectors. This primarily includes the pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, food and chemicals sectors.

Marc has broad experience in European and national merger control and cartel proceedings. He heads the German and Global Antitrust Group at Clifford Chance, the latter together with Sharis Pozen.

Career

Admitted as a Rechtsanwalt in Germany 2000

Joined Clifford Chance 2000

Secondment to the London office 2002

Partner since 2006

Head of the German Antitrust Group 2019

Co-Chair of the Global Antitrust Group 2022