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Dr Josef Hainz

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+49 30 26473 241 josef.hainz@dentons.com View profile

Work Department

Competition and Antitrust

Position

Dr. Josef Hainz advises clients on all matters of European and German competition law. Based in our Berlin office, Josef assists in behavioral (antitrust and cartel) investigations and merger control proceedings by the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office as well as in coordinating multinational merger-control proceedings.

Josef advises clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including telecommunications, automotive, healthcare and life sciences. He has particular expertise in the energy sector, with a focus on oil- and gas-related matters as well as renewables (mainly onshore and offshore windfarms). He regularly speaks and publishes on competition law topics and is a lecturer for German and European competition law at the EBS Law School in Wiesbaden.

Career

  • Dentons (formerly Salans), Berlin, 2007 to date
  • Research assistant, Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 2002-2004

Memberships

  • Member, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht
  • Co-Head, Working Group Competition Law, DICO e.V.

Education

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2007

Legal clerkship, 2005-2007, Berlin and Windhoek

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2005, Dr. iur.

University of Glasgow, 1998-1999, Legal studies

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 1996-2002, Legal studies

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Germany > Compliance > Compliance

Dentons ‘ compliance team impresses with cross-border capacities and frequent cross-practice cooperation. The team advises companies across various sectors, including the fashion and defence industries. A core focus is on compliance management systems, where the practice is experienced in current ESG and supply chain due diligence matters, as well as traditional topics such as data protection, money laundering and tax law. The team is jointly led by Christian Schefold (data protection, money laundering and fraud prevention) and Judith Aron (co-head of the European compliance practice) and also includes Peter Braun (implementation of CMS for international financial institutions), Gabriele Haas (corporate governance) and the antitrust experts Josef Hainz and René Grafunder. Jobst von Steinsdorff (corporate finance and regulatory) joined OIKON in November 2022.

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