English / German
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.
”experienced, assertive, pragmatic“, competitor
"good all-rounder in German and European antitrust law", competitor
"experienced, goal-oriented, collegial - all-rounder with reliable judgement and good writing style", Competitor
"pleasant team player“, Competitor
Publications:
Protection of secrets in antitrust administrative proceedings (Review of BGH, decision of 20 February 2024 - KVB 69/23 - Google), Decisions on Commercial Law (EWiR) 2024
Corporate sanctions, ZHR 188 (2024), pp. 699-745
Burden of substantiation in cartel damages proceedings (Review of BGH, decision of 12 September 2023 - KZR 39/21 - Liefersperre), Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (WuW) 2024, pp. 28-29
Comments on Sections §§ 81-83, 85, 86 in: Beck'scher Online-Kommentar Kartellrecht, Klaus Bacher/Rolf Hempel/Florian Wagner-von Papp (eds.), Munich 2023
Estimation of cartel damages (Review of ECJ, judgement of 16 February 2023 - C-312/21 - Traficos Manuel Ferrer), Decisions on Commercial Law (EWiR), 2023, pp. 509-510
11th GWB amendment: Act on the Enforcement of Competition, together with Cathleen Laitenberger, Der Betrieb (2023), p. 2549 - 2554
Comments on sections 65-71, 73, 74, 94-97, 100, 101 EnWG in: EnWG - Commentary on the Energy Industry Act, Maximilian Elspas/Nils Graßmann/Winfried Rasbach (eds.), Berlin 2023
Competition Compliance, in: Schettgen-Sarcher/Bachmann/Schettgen, Compliance Officer, The Augsburg Qualification Model, 2nd edition (Springer Gabler Verlag), Wiesbaden 2023
New antitrust fine and leniency guidelines 2021, Der Betrieb (2021), pp. 2685-2686
Permissible lump-sum clauses for cartel damages (together with Cathleen Laitenberger, Revuew BGH, Judgement of 10 February 2021 - KZR 63/18), Corporate and Commercial Law (GWR) 2021, pp.264-265
Liability of cartel participants for cartel-related price increases by cartel outsiders (Review of BGH, judgement of 19 May 2020 - KZR 70/17 - Schienenkartell III), Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht (EWiR) 2021, pp. 157-158
Commentaries on sections 81-83, 85, 86 ARC, in: Beck'scher Online-Kommentar Kartellrecht, Klaus Bacher/Rolf Hempel (eds.), Munich 2020
Antitrust fine law in the 10th amendment to the ARC (Part 2), (together with Giese/Janssen/Klumpp/Schelzke/Steinle), Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht (NZKart) 2020, pp. 646-652
Antitrust fine law in the 10th GWB amendment (Part 1), (together with Giese/Janssen/Klumpp/Schelzke/Steinle), Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht (NZKart) 2020, pp. 562-569
Price umbrella effects: Damages suffered by customers of cartel outsiders (Review BGH, judgement of 19 May 2020 - KZR 8/18 - Schienenkartell IV), Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb (WuW), 2020 pp. 604-605
Group and successor liability in cartel damage compensation, together with Georg Schmidt, Der Betrieb (2019), pp. 2337-2343
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 - Antitrust Challenges, Structures, Best Practices” (Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, May 2024)
“Antitrust law in the practice of the supervisory board” (Board Academy, Munich, April 2024)
“Competition Compliance - Antitrust Challenges, Structures, Best Practices” (Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, March + November 2023)
“Antitrust law in the practice of the supervisory board” (Board Academy, Munich, April 2023)
“The necessary measures must be taken in the event of disturbances of competition” Evaluation of the general competition clause proposed in the draft Competition Enforcement Act (Section 32f GWB-E) (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, conference, Bonn, December 2022)
“Antitrust law in the practice of the supervisory board” (Board Academy, Munich, April + October 2022)
“Competition Compliance - Antitrust Challenges, Structures, Best Practices” (Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, March + October 2022)
“Competition Compliance - Antitrust Challenges, Structures, Best Practices” (Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, April + November 2021)
“Antitrust law in the practice of the supervisory board” (Board Academy, Munich, October 2021)
“Competition Compliance - Antitrust Challenges, Structures, Best Practices” (Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, April + November 2021)
“Antitrust law in the practice of the supervisory board” (Board Academy, Munich, October 2021)
“Competition Compliance - Antitrust Challenges, Structures, Best Practices” (Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, April + November 2020)
“Antitrust law in the practice of the supervisory board” (Board Academy, Munich, April 2020)
“Competition Compliance - Antitrust Challenges, Structures, Best Practices” (Centre for Continuing Education and Knowledge Transfer, University of Augsburg, April + November 2019)
“Antitrust law in the practice of the supervisory board” (Board Academy, Munich, April 2019)
"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)
