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Tobias Caspary

Work Department
Antitrust and Competition
Position
Dr. Caspary is a partner in the antitrust department and divides his time between Fried Frank’s London and Frankfurt offices. Dr. Caspary’s practice covers European, UK and German competition law. He advises and represents clients before the EC, the CMA, and the German Federal Cartel Office. Dr. Caspary has worked on some of the largest and most complex cross-border mergers worldwide; and has advised in connection with numerous competition investigations, including Phase II cases before the EC and the CMA, and cartel investigations in sectors such as window mountings, car components and fuel surcharge. He has a strong focus on private equity, and represents clients across a range of industries, including media, telecoms, technology, and financial services. Dr. Caspary also advises on economic sanctions and other trade regulatory matters.
Career
Dr. Caspary joined Fried Frank in 2008, prior to that, he practiced competition law for several years at a major international law firm in Brussels.
Memberships
Dr. Caspary is a member of Competition Law Association and Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht.
Education
Dr. Caspary received a doctorate in law on predatory pricing, magna cum laude, from the University of Trier in 2005 and an LLM degree from the University of Texas in 2003.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
Praised for its ‘first-rate legal knowledge’, the team at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP acts for clients across various industries, including private equity, media, telecoms, technology, and financial services. The team is adept at handling the full range of competition law issues, from cartels and dominance cases to layered Phase II investigations. The team is led by the ‘highly strategic’ Tobias Caspary, whose practice covers abuse of dominance disputes, state aid, FDI clearances and merger control matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium