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Kai Neuhaus, LL.M.
Lawyer
Partner
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CMS Hasche Sigle
CMS EU Law Office
Avenue des Nerviens 85
1040 Brussels, Belgium
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Kai Neuhaus advises and represents clients in all facets of EU and German competition law. He regularly represents clients in cartel cases (dawn raids and subsequent proceedings) and in merger control cases of the European Commission or the German Federal Cartel Office. Kai frequently advises clients on cooperation agreements with competitors or customers/suppliers (e.g. joint purchasing or R&D) and has particular expertise in distribution/vertical agreements (e.g. internet sales, distribution systems) and abuse of dominance.
Kai also provides legal advice in the field of trade law (WTO and EU), including anti-dumping proceedings and related questions of trade defence law, as well as ingeneral EU law (e.g. freedoms of the common market).
Amongst his clients are leading companies from manufacturing industries such as the IT, consumer products, chemical or automotive sectors as well as from service industries, in particular finance and insurance, media and trade.
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Kai Neuhaus studied law at the univiersites of Augsburg, Lausanne and Munich and specialised in competition and trade law during his postgraduate studies (LL.M.) at the University College London. Kai joined the competition team of CMS Hasche Sigle in 2003 in the firm's Stuttgart office and relocated to the Brussels office in 2006. Kai advises and represents clients in all fields of EU and German competition law as well as in the field of trade law.
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"News on joint research and development", Rome, 2012
"Antitrust law and cooperation - Joint research and development", Dusseldorf - Munich - Frankfurt, 2011
"EU Anti-Dumping Law in Practice", Düsseldorf, 2010
"Latest Developments on Competition Law in Distribution Contracts", Munich and Stuttgart, 2009
"The new EU Settlement Procedure in Cartel Cases", Vienna, 2008
"EU Anti-Dumping- Joint Actions against Imports", Cologne and Berlin, 2007
"Pricing, Rebates and Conditions: Limits set by Competition Law", Stuttgart, 2006
"First Experiences with Commitment Decisions under Art. 9 Reg. 1/2003", Madrid, 2005
"Changes brought by the New German Competition Act for Procurement and Distribution", Frankfurt am Main, 2005
"Merger Control under the New German Competition Act", Chamber of Industry and Commerce Bodensee, 2005
"New German Competition Act and its Impact on Co-operation and Distribution Contracts", Chamber of Industry and Commerce Bodensee, 2005
"Predatory Pricing and Sales below Costs in Competition Law", University of Hohenheim, 2005
"Joint Purchasing in the Media Sector", Milan, 2004
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- Dossiers Internationaux - Allemagne, Droit de la concurrence, ISBN 978-2-85115-700-3, Editions Francis Lefebvre 2007, p. 153 ff
- First Experiences with Commitment Decisions under Art. 9 (1) of Reg. 1/2003, EuZW 2005, p. 620 ff
- The New EU Insurance Block Exemption Regulation, ILO, 2010
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