COMMEO has been recognized in this year’s FOCUS ranking in the category “Top Commercial Law Firm 2025” for the area of antitrust and competition. We are grateful for the recommendations from colleagues and clients that have led to this top ranking.
Handelsblatt / Best Lawyers 2025
Teamwork makes the dreamwork: COMMEO has once again been ranked by Handelsblatt in cooperation with Best Lawyers as one of “Germany’s best law firms” for antitrust and competition law in 2025. A special award goes to COMMEO partner Stephanie Pautke as “Lawyer of the Year 2025” for antitrust and competition law. As in previous years, Johanna Kübler, Dominique Wagener, and Isabel Oest are also listed as “Best Lawyers 2025” whereas Christoph Weinert is listed as “Ones to Watch”.
EU Commission delivers food for thought for non-controlling minority shareholders
The EU Commission fined Delivery Hero and Glovo for agreeing on no-poach agreements, exchanging information and allocating markets. The cartel was facilitated through Delivery Hero’s non-controlling minority shareholding in its competitor Glovo
Deutsche Anwaltakademie – 23 June 2025, online
Dr. Stephanie Pautke speaks on: „Die Vertikal-GVO – Konsequenzen für die Praxis“
Antitrust law and sport: They just want to play?
Recent rulings in sports antitrust echo far beyond the sidelines
7th ECLA Annual Competition Law Conference, 22 – 24 May 2025, Mallorca
Dr. Johanna Kübler speaks on: “New powers of the competition authorities, challenges, risks”
WirtschaftsWoche 2025
“TOP Law Firm” and “TOP Lawyer”:
German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche ranks COMMEO as well as our four female partners Dominique Wagener, Stephanie Pautke, Johanna Kübler and Isabel Oest in the field of competition law in Germany.
FDI-Control 2.0 – Review of Outbound Investments
The European Commission recommends Member States to review certain investments of EU investors in Non-EU countries
Foreign Subsidies Regulation – Recap, Initial Insights, and Outlook
Since 12 October 2023, M&A transactions meeting the relevant thresholds must be notified to the European Commission (“Commission“) under Regulation (EU) 2022/2560 on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market (“FSR“). Over the past year, the Commission, affected companies, and their legal counsel have been busy navigating the FSR framework
ECJ: National law must provide for collective redress of cartel damages if individual collection is excessively difficult
The decision by the European Court of Justice concerns the compatibility with EU law of the provisions of the German Act on Non-Judicial Legal Services regarding “class actions” for cartel damages via the assignment model