ANTITRUST LAW
Antitrust law concerns every company, owhether globally operatingr corporation or medium-sizeds company. Kantitrust requirements are in almost all areas of economic activity to note: Im Purchasing and in sales, im Trade, in the Industry and on platformsin core business areas and on secondary markets.
The aim is to to avoid behavior that restricts competition and cooperations and forms of distribution legally compliant structured. The consequences of violating antitrust law are serious: high fines, claims for damages by third parties, measures under labor law, ineffective contracts, lengthy antitrust antitrust proceedingsand high defense costs.
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Despite the paramount importance of antitrust law, there are often uncertainties:
- What must a company do to effectively avoid antitrust violations?
- What possibilities does antitrust law offer for structuring commercial activities in a legally compliant manner?
The virtual Meeting of our working group, our regular DICO Talk Live Sessions and ours Workshops on the annual DICO Forum offer participants a platform to through Exchange and further training Finding answers to these questions. Oure Goale are:
- Provide assistance in the development and implementation of antitrust compliance measures
- the awareness of the opportunities and scope of antitrust law and to sharpen it.
Working group results
Working group LEADER
Dr. Reto Batzel
Co-founder of the law firm MARCK
Dr. Reto Batzel is a partner and co-founder of the law firm MARCK in Düsseldorf, which specializes in antitrust law. He advises clients on German and European antitrust law and antitrust-related regulatory law. Before founding MARCK, he worked for METRO AG, from 2017 as head of the antitrust law department. He began his career in 2010 at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in Cologne. Reto Batzel is a member of the German Institute for Compliance (DICO) e.V., the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.Vand the American Bar Association (Antitrust Section).
Kim-Simone Janutta
In-house lawyer at the
Otto Group
Kim-Simone Janutta is since 2019 in-house lawyer with a focus on antitrust law at the Otto Group. Her responsibilities include in particular antitrust compliance, merger control and advice on the various matters of relevance to antitrust law within the Group, such as e-Commercedigital economy, platform economy and logistics. Due to her previous work as a lawyer at Covington & Burling in Brussels, in a Brussels antitrust law boutique and as in-house counsel for compliance at Atlas Elektronik GmbH in Bremen, she contributes international experience from a law firm and corporate perspective. Among other things, she is a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. and has also contributed to commentaries on the EU competition law in the transportation sector.
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