Mariya Serafimova is a Legal Assistant to the German Advocate General at the ECJ. Formerly, she was an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in the firm’s Berlin office. She was a member of the antitrust, competition and trade practice group and in European and German antitrust and competition law, merger control law as well as foreign investment law. Mariya is a German qualified lawyer (Rechtsanwältin). Mariya was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She completed her legal studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Before joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Mariya completed her legal training at the Higher Regional Court of Brandeburg and worked as a trainee at the European Commission DG Competition, the Federal Cartel Office and the European Court of Justice. She also worked as an academic research assistant at the Jean-Monnet-Chair of European Law at the Viadrina University for Professor Pechstein, for an international litigation law firm and for Freshfields’ office in Berlin. Mariya writes a doctoral thesis on European competition law with Professor Christoph Brömmelmeyer at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
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In its judgment of 28 January 2020, the Cartel Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice provided new guidance on the requirements for establishing liability and the assessment of evidence in cartel damages cases. In the initial proceedings, the plaintiff, a local transport company, sought (...)
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I. Introduction On 6 December 2017, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down its long-awaited judgment on the permissibility of restrictions by suppliers of luxury goods to sell their products via third-party online platforms under Article 101 (1) TFEU. The question has been subject to (...)
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I. The Facts The parties argue in a civil law proceeding whether a manufacturer could make the supply of goods to an authorised distributor in a selective distribution system subject to a contractual obligation not to resell goods via online sales platforms such as Amazon and advertise them via (...)
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Près d’une décennie après l’adoption de la directive de l’UE sur les dommages et intérêts, la mise en œuvre du droit de la concurrence par la sphère privée en Europe est devenue un élément important de la mise en œuvre des règles de concurrence de l’UE. Elle a connu un certain nombre de clarifications (...)
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