Jestaedt, Thomas

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 more than 20 years.

Thomas has represented clients in some of the largest European cartel cases in recent years, including Austrian Banks, Cartonboard, and Preisolated Pipes. He is the regular competition law advisor to SAP, which he represented in Oracle/PeopleSoft and SAP's acquisition of Business Objects. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities in EU state aid law; acted for Landesbanken, a German public bank, in recent EU Commission proceedings; and has acted for investors and governments (including the government of Brandenburg) in investment aid proceedings. He assisted one European country in the privatization of its national airline and another in aligning its tax laws with EU state aid law. His public procurement experience includes a successful court action by a bidder 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, and has written more than 25 competition law articles. He is listed among JUVE's 25 leading competition law experts in Germany and as highly recommended by Global Competition Counsel.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• Altimo and Telenor sign a $23.8 billion deal to create one of the largest emerging markets mobile operators , (2009)
• Dell obtains EU State aid ruling for investment in Poland
• OTE wins EC approval for government subsidy worth €390 million to its early retirement fund
• SAP Ag acquires the Israeli SAP sales and distribution division of Ness Technologies
• SAP receives antitrust clearance for acquisition of OutlookSoft
• SAP wins antitrust approvals worldwide for acquisition of Business Objects
• Sukhoi Civil Aircraft forms strategic partnership with Alenia Aeronautica , (2009)
• Wavecom agrees to be acquired by Sierra Wireless in friendly deal , (2009)

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

• Bavaria - Germany
• U of Bonn - Germany
• U of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• U of Munich - Germany

Published Works

• Antitrust Alert: Court Corrects Cartel Fining Practice of German Cartel Office, 2010
• Antitrust Alert: New German government's roadmap could change antitrust rules for large firms in Germany, 2009
• Cartel And Antitrust Law, in Wegerich (ed.), Business Laws Of Germany, Thomson Reuters/West, vol. 2, chapter 11, 2009
• 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

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Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6
60313 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany

Phones

49.69.9726.3612 (Business Phone)
32.2.645.14.14 (Other Phone)

Faxes

49.69.9726.3993 (Business Fax)
32.2.645.14.45 (Other Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com