Biography: Competition

Dr Harald Kahlenberg is a partner in CMS Hasche Sigle's Stuttgart office. He is the head of CMS' European competition practice group and the chair of the antitrust and competition practice group of the World Law Group (WLG). His practice focuses on EU and German competition law with special emphasis on merger control and misuse cases. He represents German and international clients before the German Bundeskartellamt, the European Commission and German courts in a large number of merger notifications and competition law cases and has obtained clearances on a wide range of transactions. He has considerable experience in coordinating merger filings of international transactions to several competition authorities. Furthermore, he advises clients on cartel damage issues and on the implementation of competition compliance programmes. His recent industry experience covers sectors such as engineering, energy and utilities, water, sports, print and new media, steel and scrap, drugstore chains, cement and construction, as well as distribution.

Harald is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. He is listed as a leading lawyer in competition in all of the major directories.

CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 600 lawyers providing a full range of legal services. It has more than 30 competition lawyers. The firm is a member of CMS, an organisation of 10 leading European law firms with over 2,800 lawyers and tax consultants across 30 jurisdictions with 56 offices in Western and Central Europe and beyond. The CMS competition practice group is one of the largest competition groups in the world and its more than 140 members are based in 29 cities all over Europe including Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Bratislava, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kiev, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris, Prague, Rome, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stuttgart, Tirana, Vienna, Warsaw, Zagreb and Zurich.