DR. TORSTEN UHLIG

Dr. Torsten Uhlig has been working in antitrust law since 1998.  He is counted by "WirtschaftsWoche" and “Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers” as one of the leading lawyers in Germany in antitrust law.

In his specialist area of work he comprehensively advises large and medium-sized companies on all issues of German and European Antitrust Law. He focuses especially on the representation of corporate clients and senior management in cartel investigations and Antitrust damage claims, both cartelists and plaintiffs. Besides counseling merger control proceedings in front of the German and European competition authorities and courts he advices on antitrust compliant conception of distribution systems, joint-ventures and co-operations, e.g. for R&D, purchase, production or distribution. Moreover, his area of work comprises antitrust compliance programs and compliance trainings. Dr. Torsten Uhlig has published papers on various antitrust themes and is a Member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (Association for the Studies of Antitrust Law) and the Netzwerk Compliance e.V. (Network Compliance).

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Torsten Uhlig studied Law and Economics at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. As a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation, he did his doctorate under the supervision of Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Immenga on the theme "Remedies, obligations and conditions in merger control proceedings". After working in antitrust law in Brussels for some months, Dr. Uhlig began his lawyer‘s career in antitrust law in 1998 at Gleiss Lutz in Stuttgart. During a six-month secondment he worked for McDermott, Will & Emery in New York City. He joined Kümmerlein Rechtsanwälte & Notare in 2001 and has continued focusing on his specialist area of work.

Dr. Torsten Uhlig is fluent in German and English.

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