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Rechtsanwalt (lawyer registered with the bar in Hamburg, Germany)
LL. M. (London)
Partner
T +49 40 8060136 65
F +49 40 8060136 89
M +49 173 999 45 29
Eckart Wagner has more than 20 years of experience in all areas of German and European competition law and advises and represents multinational companies, their German subsidiaries, German medium-sized companies (Mittelstand) and trade associations on all competition law and merger control issues as well as on related issues of intellectual property law, EU and regulatory law, unfair trading law and antitrust compliance.
He represents clients before the German Federal Cartel Office, the EU Commission and before German and EU courts.
Eckart Wagner advises clients from a variety of sectors, in particular the payments/financial services, mineral oil, food, agricultural, food retail, online trade, tobacco, sports, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, mechanical engineering and automotive industries.
Eckart Wagner has been recommended for many years as one of the leading German advisors in competition law by the leading German and international handbooks for the evaluation and ranking of commercial law firms:
Competitors praise WAGNER LEGAL and Eckart Wagner as "proven experts, very experienced in litigation" (JUVE Handbook 2022/23), "experienced, competent, very active, especially in damages" (JUVE Handbook 2022/23), "very experienced in litigation" (JUVE Handbook 2020/21), “always up to date” (JUVE Handbook 2019/20), “experienced, competent and always up to date” (JUVE Handbook 2018/19), “experienced,” “competent,” “innovative” and “very committed” (JUVE Handbook 2016/17) as well as "conscientious and professionally good" (JUVE Handbook 2010/11). Competitors also praise WAGNER LEGAL and JUVE for "the highest standard" (JUVE Handbook 2016/17) and "very persistent and tenacious representation and advice at the highest level” (JUVE Handbook 2015/16). Clients praise Eckart Wagner as "recommendable" (JUVE Handbook 2021/22) and as a "capable and proven expert" as well as the "pleasant cooperation" (JUVE Handbook 2014/15). Eckart Wagner has been recommended in international handbooks for many years (Legal 500, 2009).
He is a member of the board of the leading association in Germany on civil competition law and competition law litigation the Competition Litigation Forum (CLF), regularly gives lectures, organises workshops and publishes on competition law topics. Media such as ZDF, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Financial Times and Börsenzeitung quote him on antitrust issues. Read more under News.
Eckart Wagner is a member of the following associations
He speaks German, English and French.
EuGH beerdigt die kenntnisunabhängige Verjährung von Kartellschadensersatzansprüchen, NZKart 2022, pp. 628-633
E-Commerce: Handel mit Hindernissen, Vertikale Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen hemmen das Potential des E-Commerce, Analysen und Argumente 23/2017 (together with Dr. Hannes Hoffmeyer), published by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Kartellrecht: Halbherzige GWB-Novelle kommt, Finance Magazin, 19.6.2013
Sektoruntersuchung "Kraftstoffe", was sind die Konsequenzen für die Branche?, UNITI-Jahresbericht 2011/2012, pp. 28-32
Kartellschäden – EU Kommission darf in eigener Sache klagen, PLATOW Recht, 22.11.2012
Sektoruntersuchung „Kraftstoffe“ des Bundeskartellamtes: Viel Lärm um nichts?, Brennstoffspiegel und Mineralölrundschau (2011), September und Oktober
Transparency rules: Primacy of effective leniency and settlement programmes over private antitrust enforcement in the EU? (together with Miriam le Bell), Global Competition Litigation Review (2010), pp. 124–128
Analyse kollektiver Marktbeherrschung in der deutschen und europäischen Fusionskontrolle, WuW (2009), pp. 619–631
Kartellrecht betrifft auch den Mittelstand (together with Dr. Daniel Dohrn), IHK Plus, Mitteilungen der IHK Köln (2009), Nr. 11, Supplement Recht, Steuern & Consulting
Pharmaceutical Antitrust: Germany (together with Peter Klappich und Dr. Maxim Kleine), in: Getting the Deal Through, 2009, pp. 59–65
Anteilskauf mit verstecktem Risiko (together with Anne Federle), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Recht & Steuern, 8. April 2008
Kartellrechtliche Schadensersatzklagen – Bewertung der Vorschläge der Europäischen Kommission im Weißbuch (together with Dr. Maxim Kleine und Dr. Ingo Liebach), EWS (2008), pp. 305–318
Neue Entwicklungen im einstweiligen Rechtsschutz im Kartellverwaltungsverfahren: der Soda-Club-Beschluss des BGH (together with Dr. Wolfgang Deselaers und Dr. Ingo Liebach), WuW (2007), pp. 882–888
Die Übernahme der europäischen 10%-Regel für Geldbußen bei Kartellverstößen schafft einen verfassungsrechtlich fragwürdigen Fremdkörper im deutschen Recht, EWS (2006), pp. 251–257
The Integration of Schengen into the Framework of the European Union, Legal Issues of European Integration 25 (1998), Nr. 2, pgs. 1–60
2013
Founding partner at WAGNER LEGAL
2010 - 2013
Partner and head of the competition law practice at Corinius LLP, Hamburg
2008 - 2010
Partner and head of the competition law practice at Oppenhoff & Partner, Cologne
2001 - 2008
Lawyer (since 2007 in responsible position as Counsel) at Linklaters LLP (previously Oppenhoff & Rädler resp. Linklaters Oppenhoff & Rädler), Brussels (temporarily also in London and Cologne), practice group EU & Competition
2001
Admitted to practice as Rechtsanwalt in Cologne and Brussels
2000
Station at the Merger Task Force of the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission, Brussels
1999 - 2000
Station at Deringer Herman Tessin resp. Herrmann & Sedemund resp. Freshfields Deringer, Berlin, practice group competition law
1998
Station at the Berlin Senator for Economic Affairs, Department for EU Law and State Aid
1997 - 1998
Master of Laws (LL. M.), University College London, University of London
1991 - 1997
Studies of Law and Political Science at the Free University of Berlin
1994 - 1995
Carl Duisberg Society, Study on the Implementation of International Environmental Law Regulations, Java, Indonesia
