Dr. Christian H. Müller, LL.M. EUR, EMBA
Christian H. Müller advises on all questions of German and European antitrust law including merger control. This includes in particular the transaction-related advice (in particular fusion control and joint venture), advice on antitrust law-compliant contract and sales system design as well as representation in administrative and fine procedures. The civil law enforcement and defense against antitrust law claims (in particular compensation) as well as the advice and support of company -specific antitrust law compliance are part of its field of activity.
Due to his experience, Christian H. Müller also regularly advises in connection with internal investigations and the enforcement of compensation claims in complex facts.
Christian H. Müller is regularly mentioned in Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt (most recently in the 2024 edition), a law firm based on the recommendations of other colleagues, as the leading lawyer in the areas of "cartel and competition law" and "conflict resolution".
Christian H. Müller has been a lawyer and partner at the Aderhold Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH since October 2020 and advises primarily in the field of antitrust law and fusion control as well as compliance.
From 2016 to 2020 Christian H. Müller, as a lawyer, built the antitrust law in a medium -sized law firm, since 2019 as a partner.
Christian H. Müller began his legal career in 2013 as a lawyer in the antitrust team of Hengeler Mueller in Düsseldorf after he was on the subject of antitrust compliance with Prof. Dr. Pohlmann received his doctorate at the University of Münster. Christian H. Müller completed his legal clerkship in the Düsseldorf Oberlandes district. He studied law with additional economics (WIWIZ) at the University of Bayreuth as well as at the Université de Lausanne (CH) and the University of Münster.
Since 2022 he has been working as a lecturer at Jurgrad gGmbH at the University of Münster in the field of commercial law and acts as an author with various antitrust publications.
Study Association Cartel Law e. V.
Working group "Antitrust law in the Ruhr area"
Single -provider systems - new legal obligations for companies
... and soon valid!
EU does not comply with timely implementation of the Whistleblower directive
"Blue letter" from Brussels - what you need to know now
Protection provider: To implement the whistleblower directive
What companies need to know now ...
Of price restrictions on musical instruments and the draft of a new vertical group exemption regulation
In the Federal Cartel Office there is music in the air ...
Bundeskartellamt publishes guidelines for early deletion from the competition register
... and leads public consultation to the design document.
Extensive innovations in the law against limitation of competition
On January 19, 2021, the 10th amendment of the "Law against Competition Restriction" (GWB), known as the "Digitization Act", came into force ...
New competitive register from 2021
At the beginning of 2021, the new competitive register at the Federal Cartel Office is to go as a "Live" register authority ...
Beware of vertical price bonds!
Current fine decision of the Federal Cartel Office underlines antitrust importance
So check who binds to a provider forever (to a provider)
An overview of the upcoming reform of the vertical GVO and the associated vertical guidelines
Planned antitrust reform: opportunities or risks for medium -sized companies?
The “Competition Enforcement Act” (11th GWB amendment) was adopted by the Federal Cabinet in early April 2023. ...
Mediation committee reaches an agreement on the protective provider protection - what companies of 50 employees now need to know
At the latest with the EU Whistleblower Directive from 2019, which is unified in the Member States ...
NO-Poaching agreements in antitrust law-underestimated danger for companies?
In recent years, so-called "NO POACHING" agreements have become increasingly targeted by the antitrust authorities. But what exactly is behind it ...
D&O insurance and antitrust law-"A Never Ending Story"
BGH hands over the "baton" to the European Court of Justice ...
Of false starts and other often unexpected obstacles in M&A transaction-which also remains important in the crisis
Gun Jumping is still the focus of the antitrust authorities. The recent decision -making practice makes it clear that the European Commission and many national antitrust authorities ...
Marienhöfe Berlin: Aderhold structures forward funding – consulting RS Immobilien
A city quarter with around 880 apartments in Berlin-Tempelhof, an international investor, a complex forward funding contract: Aderhold advised RS GmbH & Co. Immobilien II KG on the sale of the Marienhöfe to Hines.
Commentary on Art. 101 TFEU, section "Information exchange", in: Beckok Kartellrecht (Bacher/Hempel/Wagner-von Papp), continued comment.
Commentary on § 3 GWB, in: Beckok Kartellrecht (Bacher/Hempel/Wagner-von Papp), continued comment.
Refugees protection and antitrust law - What do the German implementation efforts mean for antitrust compliance?
Refugees protection and antitrust law - What do the German implementation efforts mean for antitrust compliance? In the new edition of ...
Competition bans in the GmbH-antitrust borders, the company 2020, pp. 1721-1725.
Development of European merger control in 2017 and 2018, in: EuzwW-European Journal of Economic Law 2019, 628-633.
In the beginning the deed was! -Strategic considerations for asserting and defending antitrust damage law claims, in: ÖZK-Austrian magazine for antitrust law 2019, 64-68.
Antitrust law risks through competition bans in corporate purchase contracts, in: EuzwW-European Journal of Economic Law 2017, pp. 246-249.
International jurisdiction of European courts in the event of violations of selective sales agreements, in: ÖZK-Austrian magazine for antitrust law 2017, pp. 98-108.
Cartel rights compliance in Germany - legal obligation, reasons and effects, Peter Lang, 2011.