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About Richard Dreßler

Richard is an Associate in our Antitrust, Competition and Trade practice group.

He advises on all aspects of European and German competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations and State aid.

Richard speaks German, English and French.

Recent work

Advising DSV A/S on its global merger control and foreign investment regulation aspects of its €14.3bn acquisition of Schenker AG from Deutsche Bahn.

Advising Viterra Limited and its shareholders on the global merger control and foreign investment regulation aspects of its merger with Bunge Limited.

Advising a German gas transmission system operator on the state aid aspects of envisaged state-funding for the Hydrogen Core Network in Germany and on questions of the interrelationship with approved aid under the EU IPCEI Hydrogen Programme.

Advising Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG on the state aid aspects of the sale of its stake in the energy company STEAG GmbH to Asterion Industrial Partners.

 

 

Qualifications

  • Higher Regional Court Berlin, Germany (Second State Examination)
  • Albert-​Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany (First State Examination)
  • University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (LL.M.)
  • Legal Clerkship at Higher Regional Court Berlin with stages at the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and in the Antitrust practice group of Freshfields

 

  • Admitted as attorney (Rechtsanwalt), Germany, Member of the German Bar Association
  • Admitted to the Brussels Bar (EU-list), Belgium
  • Member of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, an association of German-speaking competition lawyers