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”.
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
Dr. Stephanie Pautke speaks on: „Die Vertikal-GVO – Konsequenzen für die Praxis“
Recent rulings in sports antitrust echo far beyond the sidelines
Dr. Johanna Kübler speaks on: “New powers of the competition authorities, challenges, risks”
“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.
The European Commission recommends Member States to review certain investments of EU investors in Non-EU countries
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
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
“You have the feeling the lawyers all love working on competition”. In the current Chambers Global ranking COMMEO is once again ranked in Band 3. Our partners Dominique Wagener (Band 3), Stephanie Pautke (Band 4), Johanna Kübler (Band 5) and Isabel Oest (Band 5) are also individually recommended as competition law experts. Stephanie Pautke is praised as a “brilliant lawyer at the intersection of IP and antitrust” and Dominique Wagener finds “practical solutions for intractable problems”. Johanna Kübler is “always two steps ahead of others” and Isabel Oest an “excellent choice for any legal issue”.
