Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Dutch
• English
• French
• German

Lawyer Overview

Thomas Jestaedt has practiced EU and German antitrust/competition law, EU state aid law, public procurement law, EU constitutional law, and international contracts law in Brussels for almost 20 years.

Thomas has represented clients in some of the largest European cartel cases in recent years, including Cartonboard, Preisolated Pipes, and Austrian Banks. He is the regular competition law advisor to SAP, which he has represented, inter alia, in the Oracle/PeopleSoft proceedings and in connection with its acquisition of Business Objects SA. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities in EU state aid law; he has acted for one of the German public banks (Landesbanken) in recent EU Commission proceedings and has acted for investors and governments (including the government of Brandenburg) in investment aid proceedings. He has assisted a European country in the privatization of its national airline and another country in bringing its tax laws in line with EU state aid law. His public procurement experience has included a successful court action by one of the bidders for the privatization of the Berlin airports. He has represented clients in a number of proceedings before the European courts in Luxembourg, including in a leading case on the interpretation of EU directive "Television without Frontiers."

Thomas is coauthor of a leading German commentary on competition law (Langen/Bunte), the main German-language publication on state aid law, the Lexis/Nexis European Competition Laws Guide, as well as the author of more than 25 articles on competition law subjects. He is listed as one of the 25 leading competition law experts in Germany by JUVE and as highly recommended by Global Competition Counsel. He is also listed in Chambers and Law Firms in Europe.

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust & Competition Law
• Antitrust Mergers/Joint Ventures
• General Antitrust Counseling
• State Aid
• Antitrust Intellectual Property

Representative Cases

• Acquisition by Sierra Wireless
• Acquisition of Business Objects S.A.
• Acquisition of Kos Pharmaceuticals
• Acquisition of OutlookSoft
• European Commission Approval for Government Subsidy

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, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Patents, RICO Act, Trade Regulation, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Unfair Competition

Bar Admissions

• Duesseldorf, Germany
• Munich, Germany

Education

• U of Bonn - Germany
• U of Munich - Germany
• Bavaria - Germany

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: New Notification Threshold in Germany Reduces Risks to Offshore Transactions, 2009
• Antitrust Alert: European Commission Clears Bank Rescue Packages Under State Aid Rules, 2008
• 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
• Study on the Enforcement of State Aid Law at National Level, Part I (1581 KB), 2006
• Study on the Enforcement of State Aid Law at National Level, Part II (517 KB), 2006

Address

Grüneburgweg 102
60323 Frankfurt am Main
60323 Frankfurt am Main 60323, Federal Republic of Germany

Phones

49.69.9726.3612 / 32.2.645.14.14 (Brussels) (Business Phone)

Faxes

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Websites

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