Philipp Werner focuses on German and EU competition law, State aid law, and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR).
He has extensive experience advising clients in EU, German, and multijurisdictional merger control matters. He also advises on antitrust compliance, including internal investigations and audits, compliance programs, and compliance training. A major part of his practice relates to EU and German cartel and abuse of dominance investigations and counselling.
Philipp is a recognized leader for high-profile State aid cases, advising and representing government and public bodies, aid beneficiaries, and third parties in particular in EU Commission investigations and before the European and national courts.
Philipp is also advising clients on the FSR, including compliance, assessment of notification requirements, and notifications in M&A and public procurement cases. He leads the Firm's FSR Task Force.
The clients Philipp serves include companies in a variety of sectors, in particular in the IT and telecom, energy, chemical, transport and infrastructure, and life sciences and health care industries.
Philipp has been recognized by all major publications including by Who's Who Legal as a global elite "Thought Leader" in competition law and State aid law. He is editor of EU State Aid Control: Law and Economics (Wolters Kluwer 2017). Philipp is an advisory board member of the Berliner Gesprächskreis für Beihilfenrecht e.V. (Berlin State Aid Roundtable), a member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V., and the antitrust section of the American Bar Association.
Experiencia
Publicaciones adicionales
- November 2022
European Competition Laws (ECL) – Germany - November 2022
The role of third parties in State aid cases - Concurrences N° 4-2022, Art. N° 109422 - 2022
Vive l’Industriepolitik – M&A unter der neuen Drittstaatensubventionsverordnung - NZKartR (2022)475. - 2022
The NOx Case: Ten Years On and Still Trying to Fit in a System, Case C-279/08 P Commission v Netherlands (‘NOx’) [2011], in: Caroline Buts und José Luis Buendia Sierra (eds.), “Milestones in State Aid Case Law” 2nd Edition - March 2021
Germany Adopts New Competition Rules for Tech Platform The M&A Lawyer, Volume 25, Issue 3 - October 2019
`State`Aid or Not - This Is the Question, EStAL 04/2019 - February 2019
The German Facebook Case – Towards an Increasing Symbiosis Between Competition and Data Protection Laws?, Competition Policy International - April 2019
When One Door Closes: Court Requires Divestiture in Long-Consummated Merger, The M&A Lawyer, Volume 23, Issue 5 - March 2018
Commission Expansionism in EU Merger Control – Fact and Fiction, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Volume 9, Issue 3 - December 2017
The NOx Case - Still Trying to Fit in a System, in Caroline Buts/José Luis Buendía Sierra (eds), Milestones in State Aid Case Law, Berlin 2017 (reprinted in EStAL 1/2018, 101-109) - December 2017
European General Court Rules (Again) on Mandatory Access and Interoperability in Software Industry, Cyberspace Lawyer, Vol 22 Issue 11 - May 2017
Pay-for-delay-Agreements: Why the EU Should Judge them by their Effects, Oxford University Press, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice (JECLAP) 2017 - 2017
Kartellrecht, in Sagasser/Bula/Brünger, Umwandlungen, 5. Auflage 2017 (Chapter on competition Law in: Sagasser/Bula/Brünger, Handbook of Corporate Conversion, 5th ed. 2017) - 2017
Werner/Verouden (eds.), EU State Aid Control: Law and Economics. - December 2016
Kartellrecht, in Sagasser/Bula/Brünger, Umwandlungen, 5. Auflage 2017 (Chapter on competition Law in: Sagasser/Bula/Brünger, Handbook of Corporate Conversion, 5th ed. 2017) - February 2016
Kartellrecht, in Sagasser/Bula/Brünger, Umwandlungen, 5. Auflage 2017 (Chapter on competition Law in: Sagasser/Bula/Brünger, Handbook of Corporate Conversion, 5th ed. 2017)
- December 6, 2023
Foreign Subsidies Regulation and Distortion in the Internal Market - The China Institute of International Antitrust and Investment (CIIAI) webinar on Foreign Subsidies and Restrictions on Outbound Investment - June 15, 2023
Multi-Pronged M&A Control - Classical Merger Control and Foreign Direct Investment at Second ASCOLA Swiss Chapter Annual Conference - CH-EU COMPETITION LAW ‘23. - March 29, 2022
Foreign Subsidies - Die Transaktionssicht, Lunchtime Seminar, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht - November 26, 2021
Distorting Third Countries Subsidies - The New Regime, EStALI Autumn Conference - November 8-9, 2018
Annual Conference on European State Aid Law, chair, Academy of European Law - April 27, 2018
Österreichischer Beihilfetag, Bindungswirkung der Eröffnungsentscheidung für nationale Gerichte - March 16, 2018
Second Annual Competition Conference, Developments in EU State Aid Law - February 28, 2018
Antitrust and Data Portability Rights, EMEA Conferences: GDPR and Antitrust - November 16-17, 2017
Seminar on State Aid Law - Basic and Advanced Concepts - November 9-10, 2017
Recent Developments on EU State Aid: Procedures, enforcement, monitoring and transparency - May 18 - 19, 2017
State Aid Proceedings and Litigation - February 1, 2017
State aid and ports, Competition Law in the Transport Sector - November 10-11, 2016
Recent Developments on EU State Aid: Procedures, Enforcement, Monitoring and Transparency - November 9, 2016
Jones Day Global Life Sciences Conference – 2016 Issues & Trends - November 4, 2016
State Aid in the Aviation Sector, European Air Law Association – 28th Annual Conference - February 22, 2016
Taxation and European Union State Aid Law: The European Commission's Investigation Into Whether Certain Tax Rulings Constitute State Aid - February 2-4, 2016
Hong Kong Competition Tribunal Workshop - January 27-28, 2016
Competition Law Challenges in the Transport Sector - December 2015
Spoke on the topic of infrastructure aid, European State Aid Law Institute's Autumn Conference on European State Aid Law 2015 - September 1, 2015
Antitrust and State Aid Presentation to University of Hohenheim’s Aviation MBA Program - July 3, 2015
Action for Annulment of EU Decision to Open a Formal State Aid Investigation, Berlin State Aid Roundtable - June 19, 2015
Enforcement of EU Competition Law at National Level, AIJA/IBA
"Fantastic competition lawyer" whom clients admire for being "extremely efficient and very pleasant to work with."Who's Who Legal: Competition
- King's College London (Postgraduate Diploma in Economics for Competition Law with distinction 2008); Second State Examination (Higher Regional Court of Berlin, 2005); University of Cambridge (LL.M. with first class honours 2003); University of Bonn (M.A. in Philosophy 2002); First State Examination (Higher Regional Court of Cologne, 2000)
- Federal Republic of Germany — Rechtsanwalt (lawyer); Brussels (Belgium) — E-List (lawyer)
The Legal 500 Germany: leading individual in State Aid (2023)
Who's Who Legal: WWL Thought Leaders: Global Elite (2023)
JUVE German Commercial Law Firms (EU and German competition law and State aid law)
Chambers Europe and Chambers Global, State Aid-Belgium, EU and German competition law, and "expert based abroad"
Global Competition Review, 40 under 40 (2012)
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