Biography
Niklas has worked on policy and enforcement matters at the European Commission and the German Federal Government and has represented clients before national and EU competition authorities, sectoral regulators, and courts.
Before joining Weil, he worked for another international law firm and as an official in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP). In DG COMP's Policy & Strategy Directorate, he worked on a wide range of EU antitrust policy initiatives, the coordination with national competition authorities, and private and public antitrust litigation. He also served in DG COMP's Directorate J (Digital Platforms / DMA Enforcement), where he worked on numerous DMA and antitrust enforcement actions in the tech sector as well as on related policy matters.
Niklas is a regular speaker at conferences and publishes frequently on a wide range of antitrust-related topics. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the university of Munich.
Representative experience, includes, among others*:
- Carlyle on the FDI aspects of its acquisition of BASF's coatings business
- Macquarie Asset Management on the merger control aspects of its sale of Aligned Data Centers
- EGYM on the merger control and FDI aspects of its merger with Playlist
- A global tech company on antitrust matters around artificial intelligence
- A global tech company in antitrust proceedings before the German Competition Authority
- A global car manufacturer in its enforcement of private cartel damage claims against members of various cartels
- Air Berlin’s insolvency administrator in a civil damages action against Etihad
- NVIDIA in its proposed acquisition of Arm
- Siemens Healthineers in its acquisition of Varian
- CPPIB in its co-investment with KKR in Axel Springer
- Triton in its acquisition of RENK
- Malteser Norddeutschland in its merger with DIAKO Krankenhaus Flensburg
- Hyundai Capital Bank Europe in its acquisition of Sixt Leasing
*Not including matters worked on as an official at the European Commission; including matters worked on at another international law firm.