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Lexology Index: Thought Leaders Competition / Global Elite 2025
We are delighted that our partners have received multiple awards: Dominique Wagener, Stephanie Pautke, Johanna Kübler and Isabel Oest are again among Germany’s leading antitrust lawyers as “Thought Leaders”. Dominique Wagener, Stephanie Pautke and Johanna Kübler are also honoured as “Thought Leaders – Global Elite 2025″.
DAI – 11 March 2025, online
“Aktuelle Entwicklungen im Europäischen Kartellrecht”
Isabel Oest speaks on recent developments in European antitrust law
Press Release 1/2025
COMMEO founding partner Dr Jörg-Martin Schultze retires
“Standalone” exchanges of information as restrictions of competition by object
The European Court of Justice provides in its decision Banco BPN further guidance on information exchange between competitors
Press Release 12/2024
COMMEO advises Zeppelin on the acquisition of the sales and service business for Cat products in the Netherlands and Norway
kanzleimonitor.de 2024/2025
(survey among Germany’s corporate counsel)
COMMEO is delighted to be ranked second among the leading law firms for competition law in this year’s kanzleimonitor.de ranking. Stephanie Pautke is one of the 100 leading lawyers in Germany across all areas of law and, together with Dominique Wagener, is listed as a antitrust expert.
JUVE Handbuch 2024/2025
In the current JUVE ranking, our partners Dominique Wagener, Stephanie Pautke and Johanna Kübler are once again recommended by JUVE as “Leading advisors for Competition Law (over 50 years)”. Dominique Wagener is considered “very experienced”, Stephanie Pautke is recognized as a “brilliant antitrust lawyer” and Isabel Oest is “excellent in distribution related competition law issues”.
Advanced EU Competition Law – 26/27 November 2024, Brussels
Dr. Stephanie Pautke speaks on “Update on Standard Essential Patents and Technology Transfer Block Exemption”
The end of a saga: ECJ decision Illumina/Grail on merger control under Art. 22 European Merger Regulation
The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) brings long-awaited legal certainty regarding the – now limited – scope of the referral mechanism under Art. 22 ECMR for concentrations that do not meet the EU or national merger filing thresholds
