Andreas Grünwald

Practice Areas

Andreas is managing partner of Morrison Foerster’s German office in Berlin and a member of the firm’s worldwide board of directors. He heads the German antitrust and regulatory practice from our Berlin and Brussels offices.

A seasoned antitrust lawyer, Andreas represents public and private companies in merger control proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission, and he handles multijurisdictional merger filings around the world. He further provides counsel on a wide range of his clients’ day-to-day operations, on matters such as abuse of market dominance, information exchange, vertical restraints, or antitrust compliance. A particular emphasis of Andreas’ antitrust practice is on recent legislative developments like the “Competition Law Digitalization Act” in Germany or the EU’s Digital Markets Act.

Andreas’s regulatory practice focuses on the technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sector. He advises on media regulation (e.g., advertising rules, youth protection, platform and intermediary regulation, media ownership control) and on telecoms laws (e.g., international licensing requirements, frequency and numbering allocations). In addition, Andreas’ practice covers issues like hate speech regulation (e.g., the German Network Enforcement Act), the EU’s Geo-Blocking Regulation, and the application of traditional regulatory laws to OTT services. Andreas also advises his clients on their public policy initiatives in relation to current legislative developments in the TMT sector.

Career

Law Degree/PhD from University of Münster, Germany. Visiting Scholar at New York Law School. International Fellow at Yale Law School. Research Fellow at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law at University of Münster.

Professional Memberships

Berlin Bar.

Publications

Publishes extensively on competition and regulatory law.