McDermott Will & Schulte, a global law firm

Carina Kant advises on German and European antitrust and competition law. She has many years of experience in advising on national and international merger control proceedings, cartel damages proceedings, antitrust compliance and antitrust aspects of distribution agreements, research and development agreements and purchasing pools.

Carina Kant has experience advising companies in a range of sectors including food manufacturing, consumer goods retail, real estate, agribusiness, food and beverage wholesale, media, pharmaceuticals, automotive, recycling and waste management and private equity. Carina has extensive experience in coordinating international merger control and FDI filings in numerous jurisdictions.

Axel Schulz focuses his practice on European competition law and has a wealth of experience in merger control, global cartel defence and general antitrust advice in sectors including energy, chemicals, agri-commodities, container shipping, ports, pigments, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

Within the pharmaceutical sector, Axel demonstrates exceptional proficiency and industry insight. He has built a solid reputation assisting clients with competition law matters arising around loss of exclusivity; in addition, Axel has advised on distribution, co-marketing, licensing and various forms of vertical and horizontal cooperation agreements.

Axel is adept in orchestrating advice across numerous jurisdictions, providing clients with clear and comprehensive solutions. This global aspect of his practice equips him to guide both national and multinational companies through the most intricate challenges.

Christian Krohs is the European head of McDermott’s Antitrust Group and advises clients on all aspects of antitrust and competition law for more than 20 years. His practice includes representing clients in proceedings and litigation before German and EU antitrust authorities and courts, coordinating complex antitrust and merger projects before authorities worldwide, and handling compliance programs and investigations.

He has extensive experience, in particular, in relation to cartel investigations, cartel damages claims, as well as national, EU and international merger control projects. He has also advised numerous clients regarding questions of market dominance and its abuse as well as antitrust and anticorruption compliance.

Christian is an experienced lawyer who has spent many years in the antitrust and competition law departments of leaders international law firms in Germany, Brussels and London. He is a well-respected author of several publications and continues to comment on relevant topics of antitrust and competition law.

With more than a decade of experience Dr. Laura Stammwitz advises and represents companies on competition and regulatory law. She represents companies and individuals in dawn raids and antitrust investigations by competition authorities. As regards transactions she advised companies in complex merger control proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission and also in foreign direct investment control filings before the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action. She has further extensive experience in providing compliance advice in both transactions and day-to-day business.

Her practice encompasses a wide array of industries, e.g. food manufacturing, packaging and the healthcare sector.  She is providing a commercial mindset and solution-oriented advice for all her clients such as private equity firms, family-run businesses and multinational companies.

She regularly publishes on current regulatory developments.

Ryan Tisch is the global head of McDermott’s Antitrust Group. He provides strategic antitrust counsel for boards of directors, chief executive officers, and key business stakeholders as they maneuver government regulations around the world.

Ryan is known for securing approvals for significant mergers facing review in multiple jurisdictions, including some of the largest mergers in the communications, manufacturing, technology, and food and beverage industries. As the digital economy exposes traditional businesses to new competition, clients also turn to Ryan to advise on their evolving business platforms and go-to-market strategies.

Throughout his global practice, Ryan handles matters extensively before the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission and manages substantive merger review matters before the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority, the Competition Tribunal of South Africa, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and China’s State Administration for Market Regulation, among other international authorities. Ryan has a proven track record of leading merger matters from the auction process to a successful resolution, including through trial.

In addition to his deal work, Ryan helps clients mitigate risk on a day-to-day basis. He advises on complex operational issues such as joint venture agreements, trade association activities, standard setting and data exchange. Ryan has particular experience navigating clients’ vertical relationships and distribution systems, and managing antitrust issues associated with resale price maintenance, price discrimination and loyalty incentives.