Katharina Apel’s practice focuses on German and European competition law, including merger control, anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and state aid. She represents clients before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office, the European Courts, and German courts. She has extensive experience in the media, chemical, health care, consumer goods, and telecommunications industries. Katharina joined the Cologne office of the firm in 2009 and became counsel in 2019. From 2013 to 2014, she was resident in the Brussels office.
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After publishing its preliminary finding in February 2022, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) recently prohibited the Deutsche Lufthansa AG group (“Lufthansa”) from terminating longstanding cooperation agreements with Condor Flugdienst GmbH (“Condor”). Under the cooperation agreements, (...)
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On January 18, 2022, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) published a press release of its review of two sustainability initiatives (see our blog post here). Only a week later, on January 25, 2022, the FCO provided further guidance for the implementation of sustainability initiatives under (...)
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FCO Provides Guidance On Sustainability Agreements* With the examination of two sustainability cooperations concerning living wages in the banana sector as well as the expansion of an animal welfare initiative, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) provided further guidance for the (...)
