Christian Filippitsch
Europe Guide 2024
Band 6 : Competition: EU
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Provided by Christian Filippitsch
Practice Areas
Christian advises clients from strategic planning to closing on mergers, joint ventures, restructurings and public takeovers and on competition compliance issues in Europe (cooperation agreements, licensing, sales/marketing) and defends clients in cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, state aid cases and in regulatory matters.
He advises on all aspects of EU and international competition and merger control law, EU state aid and public procurement as well as regulatory law. He also focuses on Third Energy Package implementation and other legislation related to the Internal Energy Market, including public procurement rules.
Christian has represented international and national clients before the European Commission and the German and Austrian competition authorities in the energy, transport, automotive, consumer goods and electronics, petrochemicals and other sectors.
Christian is a partner of our Antitrust and Competition practice in our Brussels office with more than 20 years of experience.
Christian is admitted as a lawyer in Austria and registered with the Bar Associations in Frankfurt and Brussels. A native German speaker, he is fluent in English.
Christian regularly authors publications on competition law and is a regular speaker at conferences on a wide range of competition law and regulatory topics.
Chambers Review
Europe
Christian Filippitsch has standout experience acting on the defendant side of EC abuse of dominance investigations and on cartel proceedings. He also regularly advises on multi-jurisdictional merger filings that include EC notifications. He is admitted to practice in Germany and additionally assists with national merger filings before the German authorities.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"We appreciate his style and he is very competent at what he does. I have rarely met any lawyer who is as reactive as Christian Filippitsch."
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"His international flavour and understanding matches our outlook."
"We appreciate his style and he is very competent at what he does. I have rarely met any lawyer who is as reactive as Christian Filippitsch."
"We are convinced of his abilities. His personal-professional approach and know-how are the main reasons for the assignment of Reed Smith."
"His international flavour and understanding matches our outlook."
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