Partner

Dr. Stefan Bretthauer

Hamburg

+49 40 35 52 80-20 +49 40 35 52 80-80

Languages
German, English
Practice groups/Expertise
Antitrust Distribution & Trade Energy
Consulting focuses
  • Antitrust Law
  • Distribution Law
  • Arbitration
  • Merger Control
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Antitrust Compliance
  • Antitrust fine proceedings
  • Energy Law
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Vita

  • Head of the Antitrust Practice Group
  • Admitted to the Bar since 2002
  • Education and former activities
  • University of Würzburg (Dr. jur.), Lecturer at the University of Hamburg2002
  • Legal Traineeship in the Antitrust Law Department of a leading U.S. law firm in Washington, D.C./U.S.A.
  • Legal Trainee (Referendar) in the District of the Higher Regional Court of Bamberg1999-2001
  • Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg1997-1999
  • University of Sheffield/United Kingdom1996-1997
  • University of Trier1994-1996

Affiliations

  • International Bar Association (IBA)
  • German Association for Distribution Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Vertriebsrecht e.V.)
  • German Antitrust Law Association
  • German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)
  • Jurists Alumni Würzburg
  • Chair of the northern regional section of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (German Antitrust Law Association) (2019-2021)

Dr. Stefan Bretthauer's Distinctions

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2024/2025

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2024

Best Lawyers 2025

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Legal 500 EMEA 2024

Legal 500 Germany 2024

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2023/2024

Best Lawyers 2024

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2023

Legal 500 Germany 2023

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2022/2023

kanzleimonitor 2022/2023

Best Lawyers 2023

Legal 500 EMEA 2022

Legal 500 Germany 2022

kanzleimonitor 2021/2022

JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2021/2022

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2022

Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2021

Best Lawyers 2022

kanzleimonitor 2020/2021

JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2020/2021

kanzleimonitor 2019/2020

JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2019/2020

kanzleimonitor 2018/2019

JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2018/2019

Legal 500 EMEA 2018

kanzleimonitor 2017/2018

Legal 500 Germany 2018

JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2017/2018

JUVE Handbook Commercial Law Firms 2016/2017

JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms 2015/2016

JUVE Handbook German Commercial Law Firms 2014/2015

Latest news

12-17-2024
HEUKING advises data, analysis and valuation firm bulwiengesa on acquisition by Scout24
10-01-2024
HEUKING advises Lütze Group on structured succession process
07-11-2024
HEUKING advises Vectron System AG and its largest shareholder on takeover by the Shift4 Group with capital increase
06-25-2024
HEUKING advises Peter Möhrle Holding on the sale of GROFA
more news

Publications

2025
Bundeskartellamt publishes final report on sector inquiry into fuel wholesale: Critical view of price quotation systems – a precedent for measures under the new Section 32f GWB?
Update Antitrust 1/2025, 24. February 24, 2025 ,
together with Jia-Xi Liu

2024
ICLG – Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2024
Germany: Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2024 ,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert
Commentary on the „appreciable effect” of the restraint of competition according to Art. 101(1) TFEU and on Art. 5-10 of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation
Beck’scher Online-Kommentar zum Kartellrecht

2023

Merger Control Country Comparative Guide 2023 (Germany)
The Legal 500 ,
together with Dr. Frederik Wiemer , Dr. Reinhard Siegert , Dr. Rainer Velte
ICLG – Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2023
Germany: Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2023 ,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert

2022
International Comparative Legal Guide - Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2022
Chapter Germany, August 2022 ,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert
Grundzüge des Wettbewerbs- und Kartellrechts
Stober/Paschke (Hrsg.), Deutsches und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht, 4th edition 2022 ,
together with Dr. Søren Pietzcker, LL.M. (University of Illinois) , Dr. Verena Hoene, LL.M. (University of Washington)
Neue Vertikal-GVO und -Leitlinien: Was bleibt, was ändert sich?
Update Antitrust, May 31 2022 ,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert

2021

Merger Control Country Comparative Guide (Germany)
The Legal 500 ,
together with Dr. Frederik Wiemer , Dr. Reinhard Siegert , Dr. Rainer Velte
ARC Digitalisation Act
Update Antitrust January 2021 ,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert , Dr. Rainer Velte , Dr. Frederik Wiemer , Beatrice Stange, LL.M. (King’s College London) , Anita Bohn, LL.M. (University of London) , Dr. Ruth Jungkind (nee Schneider)
more publications

Lectures

2024

International Competition Lawyers Network Conference, Wien, Sustainability, the Environment and Competition Law
Panelist, September 12-13, 2024

2022

International Competition Lawyers Network Conference, London, Competition Law in the Courts – New Developments
Panelist, October 27, 2022

2021

Regular block lectures on German and European antitrust law
in St. Petersburg as part of the post-graduate programme on International Business Law, organized by the University of Hamburg, the Chamber of Commerce Hamburg, the National University of St. Petersburg and the DAAD, since 2006

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