


Hans W. Friederiszick
Dr Hans W Friederiszick is a managing director at E.CA Economics, member of the faculty of ESMT Berlin and a former member of the chief economist team at DG Competition. Dr Friederiszick has extensive experience in advising clients in all fields of competition economics (cartels, merger cases, abuse of a dominant position and state aid cases) and has lead economists teams on international antitrust investigations. He has been retained as an economic expert in the German, UK and other European courts. Leading casework includes the multi-billion-euro merger between Holcim and Lafarge as well as EDEKA’s closely watched acquisition of rival Kaiser’s Tengelmann in Germany (which was resolved through ministerial approval). Dr Friederiszick has provided support to Telefónica in the Vodafone/ Unity Media Merger and to Remondis, most recently, on the takeover attempt of Duales System Deutschland. He has additionally received widespread recognition for his private litigation work in cases addressing the synthetic rubber, the air cargo and credit card sectors (claimant side), as well as the smart-card chip and fast-moving consumer goods sectors (defendant side). He won a large-scale framework contract supporting the European Commission, where he worked as a consortium leader on the EC fitness check of various state aid guidelines. Dr Friederiszick is a Research Fellow at ESMT Berlin. He has published widely and is a regular speaker at international antitrust conferences. Recent publications address regional state aid (in Werner/ Verouden : EU State Aid Control. Law and Economics), the economic analysis in European competition law (NOMOS Kommentar, Europäisches Wettbewerbsrecht) and cartel litigation activity (Journal of Antitrust Enforcement).
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2007 | Évènements


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2038 Bulletin
1237
Introduction The classification of resale price maintenance (RPM) within a competition law context has been the subject of controversy for decades. Until recently in the US, RPM - in its form of a minimum or fixed resale price - was considered illegal per se. In 2007 the US Supreme Court in its (...)
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"Applying the Market Economy Investor Principle to State Owned Companies — Lessons Learned from the German Landesbanken Cases"* Introduction The Market Economy Investor Principle (MEIP) is in the Commission’s practice one of the entry points for economic analysis in State aid cases. Its purpose (...)
3728 Revue
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This article reproduces the papers delivered at the second round-table at the Belgian Competition Day in Brussels on October 21, 2010. Dr. Gunnar Niels, author of the fist contribution, presents the report Oxera prepared for the European Commission. He also emphasises the importance of training (...)
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As a consequence of the financial crisis, the importance of public ownership of firms has risen. This article applies economic principles from the field of European State aid control to public enterprises, and identifies important insights on how to tailor competition policy to the particular (...)
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