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Dr Florian Wiesner

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Co-Head Competition & Antitrust Germany

Position

Dr. Florian Wiesner, LL.M. (Cambridge), is a partner in our Dusseldorf office and Co-Head of the Competition & Antitrust group in Germany. He advises on all areas of EU and German competition law, specializing in merger control, cartel investigations, cooperation and distribution agreements, compliance and all antitrust aspects of the day-to-day business.

Florian has particular experience advising and coordinating multinational merger control proceedings. He advises clients from a wide range of industry sectors, with a special focus on the automotive, e-mobility and energy sector.

Prior to joining Dentons, Florian worked for 10 years for two leading international law firms in Duesseldorf.

Career

  • Partner, Dentons, 2019 to date
  • Clifford Chance, 2014-2019
  • Gleiss Lutz, 2010-2014

Education

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2010

Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany, Legal studies

University of Cambridge, LL.M.

University of Kiel, Dr. iur.

Legal clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Hamburg

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Antitrust

Dentons‘ team comprehensively covers German and EU antitrust law and is regularly instructed on merger control, cartel proceedings, market dominance issues and antitrust compliance. The practice is also experienced in issues pertaining to investment control, public procurement and state aid law. René Grafunder acts from Frankfurt and focuses on distribution antitrust law, including the structuring of distribution systems, and jointly heads the practice with Düsseldorf-based Florian Wiesner, who is well versed in drafting contracts in accordance with antitrust law. Both are also experienced in antitrust proceedings, as is litigator Jörg Karenfort, who frequently leads in cartel and abuse proceedings before the European and national competition authorities and also heads the firm’s global antitrust practice. Counsel Arne Karsten (merger control) and Bertold Bär-Bouyssière, who is experienced in cartel damages compensation proceedings and state aid law, are other key contacts. The latter divides his time between Brussels and Berlin and made partner in April 2023.

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