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Dr. Nicolas Kredel LL.M.

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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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International: Global Competition Law and Labor – The Battle Continues in the Market for Talent

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Competition authorities around the world continue to sharpen their focus on markets for employee talent. The current push to scrutinize competition issues in labor markets can be traced to guidance issued in October 2016 by federal antitrust enforcers in the United States.