Dr Gregor Schiffers, LL.M.

Gregor advises on German and EU antitrust law (including merger control) and represents national and international companies and associations from industry, trade and the services sector before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission, as well as in litigation with an antitrust law element before the German and the European courts. Gregor also advises on all issues surrounding contractual antitrust law.

A further key practice area is supporting national and international companies and associations in the establishment, development and supervision of compliance systems (including compliance audits). He advises in German and English.

What others say

Frequently recommended for competition law – 'first-class advice under very reasonable conditions; always available', client; 'strong in advising Mittelstand companies; experienced in internal investigations', competitors
JUVE Handbook 2021/22 and 2022/23

Leading lawyer for competition law 2024
WirtschaftsWoche Top-Kanzleien 2024

Recommended lawyer for antitrust law and compliance; Gregor Schiffers has excellent specialist knowledge and is able to apply this to corporate processes in an impressive way. He also has the capacity to represent complex legal issues and analyses in a clear and comprehensible way, which is essential, especially when addressing employees who are not part of the legal department.
Legal 500 Germany 2023/24

One of the most frequently recommended lawyers for EU law
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers^® 'Germany's Best Lawyers 2023'

One of the leading lawyers for competition law and compliance
kanzleimonitor.de 2022/2023 (law firm directory of the German institute for legal departments & in-house lawyers)

Recent work 

• Representing various companies before the Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission in fine proceedings
• Frequent merger control notifications to the Federal Cartel Office for major project developers in the renewable energies sector
• Implementation of group-wide compliance structures for (listed) companies

Curriculum vitae 

• Studied law at the University of Cologne, 1997 to 2002
• Studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, for the Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2003 to 2004
• PhD on international stock corporation law with Frau Prof. Dr. Barbara Grunewald (University of Cologne) with a scholarship from the Arbeitskreis Wirtschaft und Recht im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
• Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Cologne, 2005 to 2007 including a seat at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission
• Lawyer at Kapellmann since 2008

Further qualifications and memberships

• Member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.
• Lecturer on competition law and compliance at the Technical University Dortmund
• Speaker at numerous conferences and seminars on competition law and compliance