Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English

Lawyer Overview

Johannes Zöttl represents companies in antitrust regulation before the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) and the European Commission, including merger reviews and antitrust enforcement actions. He deals extensively with cross-border mergers and acquisitions and has coordinated the merger review by multiple jurisdictions for numerous headline transactions around the world. Johannes also has extensive experience in counseling and litigation in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and automotive industries.

Recently, Johannes represented Abbott Laboratories in its $2.8 billion takeover of Advanced Medical Optics and Daiichi Sankyo in its $4.6 billion acquisition of Ranbaxy Laboratories before the European Commission. In matters involving the EC and German prohibitions on abusive single-firm conduct, Johannes is representing E-plus/KPN as complainant before the Federal Cartel Office and defending Heraeus in antitrust action for damages.

Johannes was the only German member of the ABA Antitrust Section's International Task Force (2007-2008), is a vice chair of the section's Unilateral Conduct Committee, and is a member of the German Antitrust Lawyers Association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.) and the Frankfurt Antitrust Forum (Kartellrechtsforum Frankfurt e.V.).

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Antitrust Mergers/Joint Ventures
• International Cartel Investigations
• General Antitrust Counseling
• Antitrust Intellectual Property
• Automotive

Representative Cases

• Biomet v. Heraeus Kulzer GmbH
• Acquisition by Ripplewood Holdings
• Acquisition of Advanced Medical Optics , (2009)
• Acquisition of Air Intake Module and Air Filtration Business
• Acquisition of Amafilter
• Acquisition of BST Safety Textiles Holding GmbH
• Acquisition of Business Objects S.A.
• Acquisition of Citibank European Merchant Acquiring Services
• Acquisition of Eifeler Maschinenbau GmbH
• Acquisition of Gillette
• Acquisition of INVISTA
• Acquisition of Moritex Corporation , (2008)
• Acquisition of PowerLight Corporation
• Acquisition of Ranbaxy Laboratories
• Acquisition of SEG Schaltanlagen-Elektronik-Gerate
• Acquisition of TIGI product business , (2009)
• Acquisition of Witness Systems
• Acquisition of Wittur
• Antitrust Counseling
• Formation of holding company
• German Merger Control Investigation
• Joint Venture with Intel
• LANXESS Yaxing Chemical Joint Venture
• Merger with Dainippon Pharmaceutical
• Merger with Reno De Medici , (2007)
• Numerous Transactions
• PIPE Transaction
• Sale of alginates business to FMC Corporation
• Sale of Foreign Spirits Business
• Sale of GE Bayer Silicones
• Sale of the Diagnostics Division in Bridgend, Great Britain
• Septopal© Investigation
• Unocal Acquisition

West Practice Categories

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Antitrust Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Copyrights, Deceptive Trade Practices, Intellectual Property Law, International Antitrust, International Intellectual Property, International Law, International Transactions, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Patents, RICO Act, RICO Act, Trade Regulation, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• Germany

Education

• Wuerzberg - Germany

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: European Commission to Publish Proposals on Private Antitrust Damages Litigation, 2009
• Recent Developments in the United States, EU and Asia at the Intersection of Antitrust and Patent Law, GCP Magazine, www.globalcompetitionpolicy.org, 2009
• International Licensing of Intellectual Property Rights: Issues Arising Under U.S., European, and Japanese Competition Law*, Intellectual Property Counselor. Thomson West, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: New Notification Threshold in Germany Reduces Risks to Offshore Transactions, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: New Legislation Sends Mixed Signals for German Merger Control and International Transactions, 2009
• International Licensing of Intellectual Property Rights: Issues Arising Under U.S., European and Japanese Competition Law, IP Perspectives, 2008
• German Merger Control and International Transactions - Mixed Signals, At Best, International Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. 4, 2008
• Antitrust Alert: EC Merger Control: Remedies Remedied, and Yet Another Public Consultation, 2008
• Es wäre besser, manche Rechtsinstrumente gar nicht erst zu schaffen, Platow Recht, 2008
• Weißbuch der Europäischen Kommission zu Schadensersatz in Kartellfällen, Der Betrieb, 2008
• Though Shallst Co-operate: Immunity Guidelines in Germany, (2007) E.C.L.R. 197-204, 2007
• New Immunity Guidelines for Cartels in Germany (reprinted in World Trade Executive, Competition and Antitrust Law & Practice in Europe, Second Edition, May 2007, 73-78; and ICFAI Journal of International Business Law, Vol. V No. 4, October 2006, 64-68), 2006
• Schlechte Zeiten für Kartellsünder, gute Zeiten für Kronzeugen - interview by Börsenzeitung, 2006
• Mehr Schutz für Kronzeugen - Financial Times Deutschland, 2006
• Das neue EG-Kartellrecht für Technologietransferverträge - Wettbewerb in Recht und Praxis, 2005
• Coca-Cola vermeidet Buße - Lebensmittelzeitung, 2004
• EU-Kommission nimmt die Rabatte aufs Korn - Automobilwoche, 2004
• New Regulations for Technology Transfer Agreements, coauthor - European Biotechnology News, 2004
• Drittrechtsschutz ohne Rechte? - Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb, 2004
• Die Ära des deutschen Kartellrechts geht zu Ende - Börsenzeitung, 2004
• Zusammenschlüsse können künftig leichter untersagt werden - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2004
• An der kurzen Leine: Das Kartellrecht in Europa steht vor dem größten Umbruch seiner Geschichte - Financial Times Deutschland, 2003
• Das europäische Kartellrecht wird dezentralisiert - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2003

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60323 Frankfurt am Main 60323, Federal Republic of Germany

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