Christopher Rother is a German attorney-at-law. He heads the anti-trust department of Deutsche Bahn AG since 1997. With 24 dedicated anti-trust lawyers his team is considered to be one of the biggest inhouse competition departments in Europe. 2 lawyers in his team focus on merger control and general proceedings, 3 lawyers on state aid cases, 5 lawyers on regulatory issues and 7 lawyers are responsible for anti-trust compliance and competition advice for the entire Deutsche Bahn group. In addition, his team includes a dedicated unit with 6 lawyers responsible for private enforcement of competition claims.Before joining Deutsche Bahn AG, Mr. Rother worked in private practice in Cologne and Berlin, from 1992 - 1997, focussing on German and European competition law. From 1989 - 1992, he served as assistant professor at the Institute of German and International Anti-trust Law at the University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin).
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Draft German law implementing EU Damages Directive* On Friday, 1 July 2016, the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs finally published its draft law implementing the European Union directive governing actions for damages for infringements of competition rules (“Damages Directive”). (...)
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The round-table highlighted the importance of competition networks for small countries with limited resources. The debate is introduced with an illustration of the severe damage a German company suffered from anticompetitive behavior and is followed by a state of play of the development of (...)
