Mr. Meyring’s main areas of practice include merger control proceedings in the European Commission, the German competition authority and coordination of merger control proceedings worldwide as well as representing clients in cartel investigations and leniency applications, advising on dominance issues and litigating cases in German and the European courts. Significant experience in the food, retail, energy, healthcare, waste management, and automotive sectors. Global sector leader for retail. Teaches EU Competition law at the University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
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The European Commission has revised its rules for the assessment of co- operation agreements between competitors, so called horizontal co-operation agreements. The new rules consist of two updated Block Exemption Regulations covering R&D and specialisation / joint production agreements and (...)
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On July 1, 2010, the General Court ruled in an appeal against the European Commission’s first ever finding of abuse of a dominant position by a pharma company. The Court has broadly upheld a Decision the Commission itself characterised as “novel”, but reduced the €60 million fine on AstraZeneca to (...)
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On Friday the German legislator approved the " Dritte Mittelstands-Entlastungsgesetz ("MEG III"), which introduces a second domestic turnover threshold of € 5 million. This is expected to reduce significantly the number of transactions that require prior approval by the Federal Cartel Office. (...)
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Having worked in a competition law authority, in private practice and now as an in-house lawyer, I view the latter as the most challenging and interesting. As an in-house lawyer, I feel responsible for safeguarding the long-term success and reputation of the company. So, it is important to (...)
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