BLOMSTEIN

Number of partners: 5

Number of lawyers: 27 (including partners) plus 1 specialist advisor

Languages: English, French, German, Greek, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch

Firm Overview:

BLOMSTEIN is a leading boutique for antitrust, public procurement and international trade law as well as ESG based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 2016 as a spin-off of a leading international law firm, BLOMSTEIN “has positioned itself at the top of the market within a few years”, according to clients and peers. The experienced team offers expert advice on all fields of antitrust, public procurement and international trade law as well as ESG and sustainability matters advising high-profile international clients in a broad range of sectors. BLOMSTEIN’s lawyers cooperate with an excellent network of leading specialist firms in Germany and abroad.

Main Areas of Practice:

Public Procurement Law/Government Contracts:

BLOMSTEIN supports through all phases of public procurement and provides comprehensive advice on litigation and procurement compliance matters.

For recent highlights, clients, members and contact details please see BLOMSTEIN’s Public Procurement profile.

Antitrust & Competition:

BLOMSTEIN advises on all areas of antitrust and competition law, including cartel follow-on damages claims, merger control, vertical agreements, behavioural advice and abuse of dominance proceedings, compliance and monitoring, cartels, market investigations and sector inquiries as well as state aid.

For recent highlights, clients, members and contact details please see BLOMSTEIN’s Competition/European Law profile.

International Trade Law:

BLOMSTEIN has a broad expertise of international trade law, incl. customs and excise taxes, export control and sanctions, foreign direct investment control (FDI), trade compliance, art and cultural property law as well as WTO, anti-dumping, safeguard measures and market organisation law.

3 Partners; 19 fee earners (including partners)

Recent highlights include:

■ Representing the German government in the administrative court proceedings regarding the prohibited (indirect) acquisition of Dortmund Semiconductor GmbH (Elmos) by Sai Micro-Electronics Inc.

■ Advising Cosco Shipping Ports regarding foreign direct investment aspects on the acquisition of voting rights in HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort

■ Advising Engineering Dobersek in the context of legal proceedings relating to the payment of an account balance which was refused due to sanction law arguments

■ Advising Helsing on FDI aspects in its Series B financing round

■ Representing Shell in an energy tax dispute with the Main Customs Office Hamburg before the Federal Tax Court and the ECJ

■ Representing RWE in two legal proceedings regarding excise taxes on the range of power used for power generation

Clients: ADM, BMW, German Federal Government, BP, COSCO, ED&F Man, Infineon, Helsing, Knorr-Bremse,MAN Energy Solutions, RWE, Shell, Südzucker, Vattenfall

Contact: Dr Pascal Friton and Dr Roland M Stein

Art and cultural property law: Dr Anna Blume Huttenlauch

Tel: +49 30 214 802 700

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Compliance & Monitoring:

BLOMSTEIN advises in relation to antitrust, procurement, trade and MDB compliance.

5 Partners; 18 fee earners (including partners)

Recent highlights include:

■ Being part of the EU Commission's Monitoring Trustee team (together with Alcis Advisers) to monitor the compliance of Amazon's commitments made to the Commission in the proceedings AT.40462 Amazon Marketplace and AT.40703 Amazon Buy Box

■ Acting as Monitoring Trustee (together with Alcis Advisers) in European Commission state aid proceedings SA.104353 – Recapitalisation of SEFE, SA.59913 – France COVID 19 – Recapitalisation of Air France and the Air France – KLM Holding, and SA.60165 – Portugal – Restructuring aid to TAP SGPS

■ Regular compliance trainings for a number of clients

Clients: Air France, Amazon, Axel Springer, E.ON, SEFE, TAP Air Portugal, Vodafone

Contact: Dr Anna Blume Huttenlauch and Dr Roland M Stein

Tel: +49 30 214 802 700

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

ESG:

BLOMSTEIN is mainly focused advising and supporting clients on the following ESG fields:

■ Supply Chain and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence,

■ Deforestation,

■ Carbon market,

■ Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Green Hydrogen (GH2),

■ Biofuel,

■ Taxonomy and reporting obligation, and

■ Antitrust & Competition.

They also representing clients in administrative sanctions procedures before multilateral development banks.

3 Partners; 14 fee earners (including partners)

Recent highlights include:

■ Advising the Brazilian Association of Beef Exporters (ABIEC) and Brazilian cattle and beef state sector representative Instituto Mato-Grossense da Carne (IMAC) on general EUDR questions, incl. risk classification, cooperations agreements and Due diligence, and other ESG related topics affecting the meat sector, such as CSDDD, CSRD, forced labour and animal welfare

Clients: ABIEC, IMAC

Contact: Dr Florian Wolf and Dr Anna Blume Huttenlauch

Tel: +49 30 214 802 700

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]