Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Latham & Watkins adds antitrust lawyer Sven Völcker to Brussels office, (Jul 30, 2013)
Organizations Mentioned:Latham & Watkins, LLP
Leading merger control practitioner Sven Völcker has joined Latham & Watkins in the firm’s Brussels office as a partner in the Litigation Department, according to a January 29 announcement. His practice encompasses counseling on EU antitrust rules, merger clearance, cartel, and other behavioral cases.
Völcker has practiced for 17 years at the highest levels, according to the firm. He has advised on a number of major, cross-border M&A matters and multi-jurisdictional cartel and abuse of dominance cases. An experienced litigator before the EU Courts in Luxembourg, Völcker has particularly deep experience in a range of industries, including aviation, technology, software, and financial services.
He received his doctorate degree in jurisprudence from Bonn University and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Völcker teaches EU and German competition law at Göttingen University and Brussels School of Competition. He currently acts as non-government advisor to the European Commission in the International Competition Network.
Völcker arrives at Latham & Watkins only a week after Lars Kjølbye joined the firm’s Brussels office as a partner. Kjølbye is a leader in complex conduct cases, in particular those in the energy and high technology antitrust fields. He brings to Latham deep EC credentials, previously serving in a variety of key roles at DG-Competition, according to the firm. The addition of Völcker and Kjølbye represents a significant expansion of the firm’s European practice and a deepening of its market-leading global capabilities, the firm stated.
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