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Marc Besen

Marc Besen

Germany 2026

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Clifford Chance
 Clifford Chance

Ranked in 1 practice area

Competition/European Law

Germany

18 years ranked

About

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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

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Chambers Germany

Competition/European Law - Germany

Band 2
Individual Editorial

Marc Besen regularly advises clients on merger clearance notifications. He often acts for clients from the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.

Indviduelles Editorial

Marc Besen berät regelmäßig Mandanten zu Fusionskontrollanmeldungen. Er vertritt häufig Mandanten aus dem Gesundheits- und Pharmasektor.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • He is super smart and experienced, and very solution-oriented.

    Competition/European LawChambers Germany

  • Marc Besen is very knowledgeable, highly responsive and provides advice in a manner that is clearly understandable.

    Competition/European LawChambers Germany

  • Marc Besen is very business-oriented and has good relations with the authorities, so it is really great to have him on board.

    Competition/European LawChambers Germany
  • Marc Besen ist sehr geschäftsorientiert und pflegt gute Beziehungen zu den Behörden, daher ist es wirklich toll, ihn an Bord zu haben.
    Competition/European LawChambers Germany
  • Er ist überaus intelligent und erfahren und sehr lösungsorientiert.
    Competition/European LawChambers Germany
  • Marc Besen ist sehr kompetent, reagiert äußerst schnell und gibt Ratschläge auf eine klar verständliche Weise.
    Competition/European LawChambers Germany

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