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Dr Jörg Karenfort

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Work Department

Competition and Antitrust

Position

Dr. Jörg Karenfort, LL.M. (LSE), is and ESG Specialist and Global Head of the Competition and Antitrust practice group (Berlin/Brussels). He advises clients in European and German competition and regulatory matters. Jörg has comprehensive expertise in dealing with German and European merger control as well as in cartel and abuse of dominance proceedings before European and national competition authorities and courts. He also advises national and international companies and trade associations in connection with ESG  issues and regulatory proceedings both at national and EU level. Jörg is an experienced litigator in complex competition cases and an expert for complex settlement matters. His comprehensive sector expertise covers automotive, banking, energy, TMT as well as life sciences. Jörg is a lecturer on EU and German Competition Law at the University of Potsdam and regularly publishes on EU and national competition and regulatory matters.

Jörg is CEO and one of the founders of YUVEDO Foundation—an organization that aims to eliminate Parkinson’s disease from the list of incurable diseases by 2032.

Career

  • Partner, Dentons (formerly Salans), 2007 to date
  • WilmerHale, 1999-2007

Memberships

  • Member, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht
  • Member, Constitution and Public Law section of DAJV
  • Member, Steering Committee for Telecoms, Internet and Media, AmCham in Germany

Education

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 1999

Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1998, Dr. iur.

Legal clerkship, 1997-1999, Berlin

Paris Institute of Political Studies, 1997, Sciences Po

London School of Economics and Political Science, 1996, LL.M.

Philipps-Universität Marburg, 1989-1994, Legal studies

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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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