Anita Malec is a counsel in the Competition, Regulatory and Trade team of Fieldfisher, Düsseldorf. Before joining Fieldfisher, she practiced competition law at the leading German boutique SBR Schuster Berger Bahr Ahrens in Dusseldorf. From 2006 to 2011, she worked as a competition lawyer for Hogan Lovells in Dusseldorf. Before, she was trained at the competition law practice group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Dusseldorf and Hogan Lovells in Dusseldorf and London. Her practice area covers German and EU competition law. My experience covers primarily cartel investigations of the European Commission as well as the German Bundeskartellamt, leniency applications and dawn raid and compliance trainings. She further advises clients on abuse of dominance cases, private cartel damage claims, German and EC merger control and on vertical aspects such as on competition law implications of distribution agreements. She also provides competition law guidance for horizontal cooperations such as R&D and licensing agreements and for competition law questions in relation to the use of IP rights. She teaches competition law at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt and is also a member of the German Association of Competition Law and of the German-British Association of Lawyers. She speaks fluent German and English.
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Introduction In a press release dated 13 March 2023, the German Cartel Office (BKartA) stated that Rheinmetall must share its maintenance software for wheeled armoured transport vehicles with its competitors for cartel law reasons. In the context of an abuse of dominance proceeding, the (...)
