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Prof. Dr. Michael Saller, M.Jur. (Oxford)

Special Counsel*

Prof. Dr. Michael Saller, M.Jur. (Oxford) is special counsel* for antitrust and competition law at Schalast's Frankfurt office. He advises in all areas of German and European antitrust law as well as in matters of intellectual property rights. He is a full professor of commercial law at the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Science in Jena and a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Michael Saller is not admitted to the bar. As special counsel he advises Schalast internally and does not advise clients directly.

Biography

Michael Saller studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. He then graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master of European and Comparative Law (M.Jur.) and received his doctorate with a thesis on antitrust law on the subject of "Merger Control in Pay-TV Stations" as a scholarship holder of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Munich to obtain a Doctor of Law (Dr. jur.) at the Chair of Business Law under Prof. Dr. Theo Bodewig, LMU Munich.

Before becoming Professor of Business Law, Michael Saller worked as Senior Expert and Team Leader in the Competition Division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (2015-2020) and as Assessor at the Federal Cartel Office in Bonn (2009-2015). He was also a lawyer with the law firms Latham & Watkins and Shearman & Sterling (2005-2009) and a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (2003-2005).

* No lawyer admitted in Germany

Publications

  • 2020 Final Report of the OECD Competition Assessment Report ASEAN, Thailand, Sector Logistics
  • 2019 Final Report of the Mexican Competition Assessment Review, Sector Gas
  • 2018 Challenges and coordination of leniency programmes, OECD background paper
  • 2018 Final Report of the Mexican Competition Assessment Review, Sector Pharma and Meat
  • 2017 Performing a Competition Assessment Project: A few practical considerations for carrying out a competition assessment project, Sofia Competition Forum Newsletter, November 2017
  • 2016 Final Report of the OECD Romanian Competition Assessment Review, Sectors Freight Transport, Construction including Public Procurement, Food Processing
  • 2016 Managing a Competition Assessment Project: Need to engage Stakeholders, OECD Korea Policy Centre, Newsletter, Dezember 2016
  • 2013 Digital Evidence Gathering in German Cartel Investigations, ECLR 2013, 84 f.
  • 2013 Schutz anonymer Informanten im Kartellverfahren, BB 2013, 1160 ff.
  • 2013 Exchange of information: confectionery goods producers fined for cartel behaviour (Germany), Oxford Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2013, 365 ff.
  • 2012 Vorgehensweise des Bundeskartellamtes bei der Sicherstellung von IT-Asservaten, CZZ 2012/5 2011 Bundeskartellamt für Vielfalt in der Kälbermast (zusammen mit Elke Zeise), Agrarzeitung, 4. Februar 2011
  • 2010 Die neue Gruppenfreistellungsverordnung der Europäischen Kommission für den Versicherungssektor, Versicherungsrecht 2010, 417 ff. 2010 Das Provisionsabgabeverbot im deutschen Versicherungsrecht, Versicherungsrecht 2010, 1249 ff.
  • 2008 Das Weißbuch der Europäischen Kommission zu kartellrechtlichen Schadensersatzklagen - Darstellung und erste Bewertung wesentlicher Aspekte (mit Dr. Georg Weidenbach). Betriebsberater 2008, 1021 ff.
  • 2008 Europäische Kommission gibt Anteilserwerb an Premiere durch News Corp unter Auflagen frei (mit Gaby Eickstädt): Multimedia und Recht 2008/11.

 

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