Antitrust law.
With many years of experience in this area, we advise and represent companies, associations and the public sector in all matters relating to German and European antitrust law.
At the centre of our activities here are the preparation and support of merger control proceedings in relation to the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission, as well as representation of our clients in antitrust administrative proceedings. Our work regularly begins with an internal review of antitrust-sensitive projects, along with advising our clients on how to implement contracts and transaction processes in a manner that is compliant with antitrust law.
If there has already been an infringement of antitrust law, we offer our clients prompt assistance in terminating such infringements, establishing markers and completing leniency applications, and we also provide forward-looking support in the development of sustainable, practical compliance programmes.
After the conclusion of penalty and abuse proceedings we will, if necessary, take over the forensic enforcement of or defence against claims for damages and claims for injunctive relief as part of the increasingly important follow-on process.
Tilmann Kruse
born 1964, university studies in Freiburg, Berlin and Edinburgh/Scotland, admitted as attorney in 1999.
Specialisation: Mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, compliance and antitrust law. Tilmann Kruse specialises in corporate transactions and introduction of compliance systems. He has assisted in many national and international transactions by strategic investors (including in the USA, China and India), and frequently provides advice on financing rounds for start-ups. The main focus of his work in corporate law is partnership law and group law, as well as providing advice to management boards and managing directors.
Prior to 2016, he was General Counsel to an international company based in Hamburg. During his time there, he introduced compliance systems in a vast range of companies, and performed internal investigations centring on antitrust law and fighting or preventing corruption.
Mr Kruse belongs to the Academic Association for Corporate and Company Law.