Dr. Petra Linsmeier is Partner in the Munich office of Gleiss Lutz and speaker of the Energy Focus Group. Petra Linsmeier advises mainly energy industry clients on German and European antitrust law, in particular merger control and cartel proceedings. She also regularly advises on compliance issues. Dr. Petra Linsmeier studied law in Passau, Prague and Munich. In 1999 she obtained her doctorate in law. She focuses on German and European antitrust law, merger control, energy law and compliance. Her working languages are German, English, French and Italian. Dr. Petra Linsmeier is regularly listed in the JUVE Handbook as a strongly recommended competition lawyer in Germany.
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On 30 March 2010, the German Federal Court of Justice overruled a judgment of the Higher Regional Court of Munich and restored the judgment of the Regional Court of Munich in first instance. The question at stake was whether MAN had an obligation to contract with authorised repairers of (...)
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On 23 June 2009, the German Federal Court of Justice overruled three judgments of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf and remitted the cases back for further proceedings. In the joint proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice, the court had to decide whether a non-competition clause (...)
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On 23 June 2009, the German Federal Court of Justice overruled three judgments of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf and remitted the cases back for further proceedings. In the joint proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice, the court had to decide whether a non-competition clause (...)
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On 17 March 2009, the German Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt decided on the compatibility with competition law of non-competition clauses to the detriment of minority shareholders. The question at stake was whether a non-competition clause to the detriment of a minority shareholder (...)
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On 3 March 2009, the German Federal Court of Justice reversed the judgement of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf and remitted the case back for further proceedings. The question at stake was whether an undertaking could be regarded as dominant according to Art. 102 TFEU if due to its (...)
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On 17 February 2009, the German Federal Cartel Office cleared a merger in the sugar sector subject to conditions and obligations. The case concerned the indirect acquisition of the sugar activities of the Danish company Danisco Sugar A/S by the German sugar refinery Nordzucker AG, an (...)
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On 12 December 2008, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf issued a decision concerning a rental agreement between a district and a manufacturer of car number plates. The case concerned the question whether a company having a local monopoly on the manufacturing market for car number plates (...)
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On 10 December 2008, the German Federal Court of Justice (FCJ) issued a decision on the definition of the relevant gas supply market. The case concerned the question whether a regional gas supplier had a dominant position which could have been abused. Facts and proceedings Stadtwerke (...)
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On 12 November 2008, the German Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf approved a decision of the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) prohibiting the proposed acquisition of a 13.75% share in a company by a competitor. The case concerned the issue of whether, according to German law, a share (...)
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On 7 November 2008, the Regional Court of Mannheim issued a decision on the validity of territorial limitations contained in reciprocal representation agreements concluded between national collecting societies. The case concerned the question whether a national collecting society was entitled (...)
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On 16 January 2008 the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf issued a decision on questions concerning the German prohibition of unfair hindrance, Sec. 20(1) of the German Act against Restraints on Competition (ARC). The questions arose in administrative proceedings by the German Federal Cartel (...)
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On 21 December 2007, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) imposed a fine on nine state associations of pharmacists, five pharmaceutical companies and the Federal Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers for organising and accomplishing a lecture series intended to convince pharmacists to (...)
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On 4 December 2007 the German Regional Court of Hamburg issued a decision on the compatibility with competition law and the law against unfair practices of the exclusive distribution agreement concluded between the German mobile network operator T-Mobile and the American multinational (...)
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On 12 October 2007, the German Federal Cartel Office cleared a merger in the energy sector. The German companies Thyssengas GmbH (Thyssengas), E.ON Gastransport AG & Co. KG (EGT) and EWE AG (EWE) planned to acquire shares in trac-x Transport Capacity Exchange GmbH (Trac-x), the provider of (...)
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On 26 September 2007, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) ceased abuse proceedings launched against RWE AG (RWE) in 2005 after it had declared RWE’s commitments to auction off electricity to be binding. The proceedings centred on the question whether RWE had abused its alleged dominant (...)
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In three cases dated 15 August 2007 and 26 June 2008 the German Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf decided on the compatibility with competition law of non-competition clauses to the detriment of minority shareholders. In two of the cases, appeals against denial of leave to appeal are pending (...)
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On 27 June 2007, the German Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf issued a decision on the question whether a telecommunication company abused its dominant position by demanding excessive fees for the provision of information for directory enquiry services. The question at stake was whether a (...)
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Facts The plaintiff was a former authorised distributor of the defendant automobile manufacturer Bayerische Motorenwerke AG (BMW). In 1996, the plaintiff entered into a contract with BMW for the distribution of motor vehicles manufactured by BMW. This contract was based on a standard clause (...)
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On 3 May 2007, the German Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Bremen issued a decision on several questions concerning denial of access to essential facilities. The case concerned the question whether the operator of an exhibition centre was a dominant undertaking in charge of an infrastructure (...)
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On 11 April 2007, the German Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt issued a decision on the relationship between copyright, trademark and title protection law on the one hand and competition law on the other hand. The question at stake was whether restrictive clauses concerning the distribution (...)
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On 25 October 2006, the German Federal Cartel Office prohibited the proposed merger between the two American companies Coherent, Inc. (Coherent) and Excel Technology, Inc. (Excel), each a market leader in the laser area . Facts Coherent is an American company, listed on the US stock (...)
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On 20 September 2006, the German Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf issued a decision on the interpretation of Regulation n° 1400/2002 concerning the contractual obligation of authorised repairers exclusively to use original spare parts instead of spare parts of matching quality. Facts (...)
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On 11 April 2006, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) unconditionally cleared the acquisition of shares in n-tv Nachrichtenfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG by RTL Television. The case concerned the question whether a merger strengthening the collective dominant position of RTL and ProSiebenSat.1 (...)
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On 8 March 2006, the German Federal Cartel Office cleared a merger in the hospital sector subject to conditions and obligations . The case concerned the acquisition of the Altona Children’s Hospital (AKK), Hamburg-Altona, by the Altona Children’s Hospital non-profit LLC (AKK gGmbH), a special (...)
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On 29 September 2004 the German Federal Cartel Office prohibited the proposed merger between the American company Leggett & Platt, Inc. (L&P), a manufacturer and distributor of inter aliaresidential furnishings, and AGRO Federkernproduktions GmbH (AGRO), a German manufacturer of (...)
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On 21 July 2004, the German Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf issued a decision on the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards as regards competition law matters . Facts Until the end of 1989 the defendant was a producer and distributor of regenerative heat exchangers (...)
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On 13 July 2004, the German Federal Court of Justice issued a judgement on the validity of several standard clauses contained in motor vehicle distribution agreements concluded between the French automobile manufacturer CITROËN and its licensed dealers in Germany. The case concerned the (...)
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On 23 June 2004, the German Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf issued a decision on the compatibility with EC law of a contract concerning an exclusive right to import Czech beer into Germany . Facts The plaintiff used to be the sole importer and authorised dealer in Germany for Budweiser (...)
