Dr. Ann-Christin Richter is an antitrust litigator and the deputy Managing Partner of Hausfeld in Berlin. She advises on all aspects of competition law and represents clients in antitrust and IP litigation. Ann-Christin specializes in representing clients in cartel damages actions, both on the plaintiff’s and the defendant’s side. She is also experienced in defending clients in cartel investigations by competition authorities and in conducting internal investigations. A further focus of Ann-Christin’s practice is providing advice in abuse of dominance cases and at the interface of IP and antitrust law. Ann-Christin has represented clients before numerous German courts as well as before the European General Court. Ann-Christin studied in Hanover, Hamburg, Berlin and Durham. She holds a LL.M. from Durham University and a Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin, both with a focus on competition law. Prior to joining Hausfeld, Ann-Christin worked for two international law firms in German and European competition law and antitrust and IP litigation for several years. She further worked as an antitrust expert for a major international pharmaceutical and healthcare company.
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In parallel to the rise of the tech giants, the interplay between EU competition and data protection law has attracted increasing attention. This relationship was at the core of the 2019 Meta decision of the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, BKartA), in which the authority held (...)
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This time, the preliminary ruling concerns the bearing of costs by the claimant in the event of partial dismissal of its claim and the prerequisites under which the national court is entitled to estimate the damage. The Advocate General’s opinion had raised high expectations for the ECJ’s (...)
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I. Introduction “We are a utility,” said Mark Zuckerberg about his company Facebook in 2012. A decade later, EU legislators appear to deliver what Zuckerberg (unwillingly) called for: being regulated like a utility. On 1 November 2022, European a new landmark Big Tech regulation, the Digital (...)
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In its latest decision regarding the Trucks cartel the European Court of Justice (“ECJ“) once again clarified statute of limitation issues. Although the decision primarily dealt with the temporal applicability of the 2014 EU Damages Directive, it draws important implications for the (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2023 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. In early 2021, the German legislator amended the country’s antitrust law and introduced, inter alia, Sec. 20(3a) to the German Competition Act. The provision (...)
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On 30 January 2020, the European Court of Justice released its judgment relating to a patent dispute between the pharmaceutical patent-holder, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and a generic drug maker concluding that originators and generics are in fact “potential competitors” if the generic drugmaker (...)
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Both houses of German parliament, the German Bundesrat (German Federal Council) and the Bundestag (German House of Representatives), have finally approved the long-awaited ninth amendment to the Act against Restraints of Competition, which in particular addresses private antitrust enforcement (...)
