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Germany: Antitrust Law Update

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Event | 26 September 2023 | 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM CET

Please note this event will be held in German only.

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Dr. Nicolas Kredel chairs Baker McKenzie's Global Industrials Manufacturing and Transportation Group. He also heads the Firm’s German Antitrust & Competition practice.
Nicolas has worked in antitrust law for more than 15 years and is recommended in various directories, including Chambers, Global Competition Review, Legal 500 and JUVE. He was awarded the ILO Client Choice Award several times in 2025, 2020, 2018, and 2016 for Antitrust (Germany). In 2025, Nicolas won, together with his co-authors, Concurrences' Antitrust Writing Award for Best Business Article in the concerted practice area.
Nicolas serves on the Advisory Board of Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftsverfassung e.V. (FIW), the leading German language institution on competition law and policy. He is also a member of the ABA Antitrust Section and of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht.

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Dr. Anika Schürmann co-heads Baker McKenzie's German Investigations, Compliance & Ethics Practice. She is a bar-certified professional in criminal law (Fachanwältin für Strafrecht) and has extensive experience in advising clients in all kinds of business crime matters, with a particular focus on complex investigations and proceedings. Anika is also a regional chair of the prestigious German Association of Antitrust Lawyers and co-heads Baker McKenzie's German Consumer Goods & Retail Industry Group.
Anika frequently publishes on business crime topics and is a lecturer at the Westphalian University for Applied Science. Her capability has repeatedly been recognized by The Legal 500 ("Next Generation Partner"), Juve ("frequently recommended") and the renowned German business magazines Handelsblatt (Best-Lawyers-Ranking) and WirtschaftsWoche.
Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2013, Anika was a member of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s antitrust team in Brussels (2007-2011), and practiced at Wessing & Partner, a leading German law firm for high-profile white-collar crime matters (2012-2013).

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Katharina Spenner is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Munich office and a member of the Firm's Steering Committee of the EMEA International Commercial & Trade Practice Group. She joined the Firm's Frankfurt office in 2000 and transferred to the Munich office in 2004. She was seconded to the Amsterdam office for eight months in 2003. Katharina previously worked as a freelancer in the legal department of Lufthansa Cargo AG from 1997 to 1999. She has written several commentaries on competition and distribution law and regularly delivers presentations and workshops on topics related to distribution and competition law.

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Jan Kresken, a partner, practices in the area of competition law, especially in the automotive, chemicals, pharmaceutical and (re)insurance sectors. He holds a degree in law from the Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (University of Muenster) and a master’s degree (LL.M.) in competition law, economics, and policy from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. After his studies, he began his PhD in competition law at the University of Muenster. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, he worked as research assistant for Clifford Chance in Duesseldorf and as pupil barrister in the area of competition law for the German Bundeskartellamt (federal cartel office) and the firms Clifford Chance in Duesseldorf and Dierks & Bohle in Berlin.

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