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Antitrust Law - Corporate Criminal Law & Compliance
Dr Christian Heinichen is Partner at ADVANT Beiten‘s Munich office and member of the Competition practice group. He advises national and international clients on all aspects of German and European competition law, including cartel investigations before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission, merger control proceedings, dominance cases as well as competition compliance and general competition law advice.
Dr Christian Heinichen studied law and economics at the Universities of Bayreuth, Münster, St. Gallen and Augsburg (Dr. iur. 2010). Before joining ADVANT Beiten in 2010 he worked for several years with another leading German law firm. Dr Christian Heinichen is a lecturer on competition law at the University of Augsburg. He became Partner at ADVANT Beiten in 2014.
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Publications:
Corporate sanctions, ZHR 188 (2024), pp. 699-745
Antitrust Law on Digital Tracks, NJW-aktuell 45/2018, p. 14
Comments on Sections 66-72, 94-97, 100, 101 German Energy Industry Act (EnWG), in: Energiewirtschaftsgesetz-Kommentar, Elspas, Graßmann und Rasbach (ed.), Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2018
Limits of Successor Liability in Competition Law, WuW 2015, p. 690
Administrative Fee Imposed on Acquiring Legal Entity for a Violation of Competition Law
(Review Federal Court of Justice, Decision of 16 December 2014, KRB 47/13 - Silo Set-up Fees II), EWiR 2015, p. 427
Inclusion of an Undertaking’s Internal Sales for the Calculation of the Amount of the Fine
(Review CJEU, Judgment of 12 November 2014, case C-580/12 - Guardian), EWiR 2015, p. 197
Inspection of Files by Civil Courts in Cartel Damage Actions, NZKart 2014, p. 83
Forestry Cooperation in the Light of Antitrust Law, AuR 2014, p. 1
Competition Compliance, in: Compliance Officer - Das Augsburger Qualifizierungsmodell (The Augsburg Qualification Model), 2014, p. 63 et seq.
Interpretation of antitrust law - comment on the Federal Court of Justice's decision of 26 February 2013 - KRB 20/12, NZWiSt 2013, p. 161
Group-wide Attribution of Turnover Under Section 81 (4) 2nd Sentence of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition - Breach of the Prohibition of Reasoning by Analogy NZWiSt 2013, p. 94
Payment of Interest on Cartel Fines is Constitutional
(Comment on the Federal Constitutional Court's decision of 19 December 2012 - 1 BvL 18/11) EWiR 2013, p. 149
Antitrust Fine Liability of Legal Successor in Light of the Prohibition of Analogy, ZIS 2012, p. 68
Legal Succession under German Regulations on Cartel Offences, WRP 2012, p. 159
Extending the Liability for Antitrust Penalties to the Legal Successor (Review Federal Court of Justice, Decision of 10 August 2011 - Insurance Merger), EWiR 2011, p. 821
Definition of Enterprise and Succession of Liability in European Antitrust Law, Nomos 2010.
Lectures:
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, Augsburg, April + November 2018)
"Specialisation on Antitrust Law - Recommended Actions & Decision Update" (Beck-Verlag, Munich, October 2018)
"Antitrust Compliance" (Board Academy, Munich, October 2018)
"Antitrust Law Under the 9th Amendment of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB)" (Augsburg University, seminar, February 2018)
"Specialisation on Antitrust Law - Recommended Actions & Decision Update" (Beck-Verlag, Munich, November 2017)
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, Augsburg, April + November 2017)
"Antitrust Compliance" (Board Academy, Munich, March + November 2017)
"Competition on the Internet" (Augsburg University, seminar, February 2017)
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, Augsburg, April + November 2016)
"Specialisation on Antitrust Law - Recommended Actions & Decision Update" (Beck-Verlag, Munich, October 2016)
"Antitrust Compliance" (Board Academy, Munich, Februar 2016)
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, Augsburg, November 2015)
"Antitrust Law - Concentration and Current Practice" (Beck-Verlag, Frankfurt, November 2015)
"Antitrust Law - Concentration and Current Practice" (Beck-Verlag, Munich, June 2015);
"Exclusive, selective, protective - Optimisation of Distribution in the Focus of the German Federal Antitrust Authority (Bundeskartellamt)" (LEGAL DAY, Munich, June 2015)
"Antitrust Compliance" (Board Academy, Munich, April 2015)
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, April 2014 + November 2014)
"Legal Successor's Liability for a Fine" (Münchner Kartellrechtsforum, July 2014)
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, April 2014)
"Car Spare Parts in Competition - An Analysis Under Antitrust Law Aspects" (Autorecht 2014, April 2014)
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, October 2013)
"BGH - KRB 20/12 - Grauzementkartell" (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, May 2013)
"Liability for a Fine by Attribution" (5th Speyerer Kartellrechtsforum, April 2013)
"Competition Compliance" (ZWW Augsburg, March 2013)
"Legal Succession under German Regulations on Cartel Offences" (FIW Seminar, July 2012)
