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Dr. Jan Heithecker

Dr. Jan Heithecker

Of Counsel

Dr. Jan Heithecker

Of Counsel

Berlin

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Dr. Jan Heithecker is Of Counsel in the Berlin office and a member of the Competition and Antitrust practice group. He advises clients on European and German competition matters, with an emphasis on behavioral antitrust, merger control and EU State aid law. Jan’s clients belong to a variety of industries, including aviation, banks, basic materials, chemical, energy, engineering, gaming, logistics, media, publishing, raw materials, services, technology and tourism.

Experience

International energy company: Representing the company in defending a commitment decision by the Commission in an abuse proceeding before the General Court (Cases T-616/18 and T-399/19).
International services company: Advising on taking action against abusive contract terms.
International tourism company: Advising on obtaining access to infrastructure based on competition law.
German logistics company: Advising on defending against infrastructure access claims based on competition law.
Global chemicals company: Advising on preparing for competition law dawn raids.
International engineering company: Advising on preparing for competition law dawn raids.
International basic materials company: Advising on global merger control for several transactions.
International energy company: Advising on German merger control notification.
Global technology company: Advising on global merger control for numerous transactions, comprising several EU filings, several dozen German filings and many filings in other jurisdictions.
Global publishing company: Advising on global merger control for several transactions, including one complex transaction comprising an EU filing and numerous further filings.
Global engineering company: Advising on global merger control for numerous transactions, comprising numerous filings in Germany and several further jurisdictions.
Global airline: Advising on global merger control for a complex transaction, comprising EU filings and numerous further filings.
Global media company: Advising on global merger control for several complex transactions, comprising an EU filing and several further filings.
Several international basic materials companies: Advising on securing energy aid.
German services company: Advising on State aid aspects of a transaction.
German investment bank: Advising on State aid aspects of the implementation of a funding program.
German media company: Advising on obtaining SME status for State aid purposes.
German tourism company: Advising on defending against a State aid complaint brought by an alleged competitor before a German court and the Commission.
German raw materials company: Advising on bringing a State aid complaint against a competitor before a German court, the Commission, the General Court (Case T-89/09) and the Court of Justice (Cases C-242/15 P and C-246/15 P) and in defending against State aid allegations before the EU Commission and the General Court (Case T-137/02).
Global logistics company: Advising as co-counsel in defending against State aid allegations worth billions before the Commission, the General Court and the Court of Justice.
European gaming association: Advising on intervening in support of the Commission in two State aid cases before the General Court (Cases T-601/11 and T-615/11) and the Court of Justice (Cases C-541/14 P and C-563/14 P).
European aviation association: Advising on intervening in support of the Commission in a State aid case before the General Court (Case T-196/04).
European press association: Advising on challenging a Commission decision regarding access to documents before the General Court (Case T-36/04) and the Court of Justice (Joined Cases C-514/07 P, C-528/07 P and C-532/07 P).

Recognition

Jan is recommended for the area Competition/Antitrust in the 2023 ranking “Germany’s best lawyers” published by the Handelsblatt newspaper in cooperation with the US publisher Best Lawyers.

Insights

Articles

Co-author, comment on judgment of European Court of Justice of 12 December 2019 in Case C-435/18 Otis, Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb 2020
Co-author, “Insolvenzplansanierung und EU-Beihilfenrecht,” Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht, 2010
“Nokia ist kein Einzelfall – Inwieweit können Subventionen bei Verfehlung von Arbeitsplatzzielen zurückgefordert werden?,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 13, 2008
Book review of Lars Kogel, “Zuständigkeitsabgrenzung in der EU-Fusionskontrolle,” Wirtschaft und Wettbewerb 2007
“Zusagen in der Europäischen Fusionskontrolle,” Der Syndikus, July / August 2001
Co-author, “Remedies: the practical common ground between the US and the EU,” Global Competition Review, October 2000
“Fuzzy Logic und der ‚Tierhalter‘,” Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 7, issue 3, September 1993

Books

Artikel 17 FKVO, in: Frankfurter Kommentar zum Kartellrecht, 105th update, May 2023
Artikel 15 FKVO und Artikel 20 FKVO, in: Frankfurter Kommentar zum Kartellrecht, 103rd update, September 2022
“Mergers in the medical devices sector,” in: Figueroa/Guerrero, EU Law of Competition and Trade in the Pharmaceutical Sector, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019
Artikel 19 FKVO und Artikel 23 FKVO, in: Frankfurter Kommentar zum Kartellrecht, 94th update, August 2019
“Beihilfenreform aus Sicht der Anwaltschaft: Die Weiterentwicklung der materiell-rechtlichen Vereinbarkeitsgrundsätze,” in: Immenga/Körber, Beihilfenrecht in der Krise – Reform des Beihilfenrechts, Nomos Verlag, 2014
“Artikel 107 Abs. 3 AEUV: Abwägungsprüfung aus juristischer Sicht,” in: Birnstiel/Bungenberg/Heinrich, Europäisches Beihilfenrecht, Nomos Verlag, 2013
“Germany,” in: Global Legal Insights, Merger Control, second edition, London, 2013
“Wettbewerbssicherung in der europäischen Fusionskontrolle durch Zusagen,” Ph.D. thesis, Berlin, 2003

Activities and Affiliations

Presentations

Speaker, “Neueste Entwicklungen in der EU-Fusionskontrolle,“ 4th DKN Kartellrecht Summit, Berlin, November 23, 2015
Speaker, “Beihilfenreform aus Sicht der Anwaltschaft,“ 3rd Göttinger Kartellrechtsgespräch, Göttingen, October 25, 2013
Speaker, “State aid and subsidies in support of the Green Economy,” Joint Workshop of University of Halle-Wittenberg and Beijing University of International Business & Economics, Berlin, August 21, 2012
Lecturer, “Praktikerseminar: EU-Beihilfenrecht,” University of Halle-Wittenberg, winter semester 2011/12
Speaker, “Informationsaustausch in Verbundgruppen – Was geht noch?,” Competition Law Workshop of Zentralverband Gewerbliche Verbundgruppen, Cologne, March 22, 2011
Lecturer, “Praktikerseminar: Deutsches und Europäisches Recht der Fusionskontrolle,“ University of Halle-Wittenberg, summer semester 2010
Speaker, „Presentation of Regulation 1/2003,“ conferences for national judges of Europäische Rechtsakademie on March 27, 2007 in Kromeriz/CZ, on May 3, 2007 in Moletai/LT and on June 11, 2007 in Bucharest/RO

Memberships

Member, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht

Prior and Present Employment

Of Counsel, Dentons, 2018 to date
Partner, WilmerHale, 2007-2016
Associate/Senior Associate/Counsel, WilmerHale, 2000-2006
Research Assistant, University of Jena, 1997-1999

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