Profile: Thomas Jestaedt

Competition

Biography: Competition

Thomas Jestaedt has practised EU and German antitrust/competition law, EU state aid law, public procurement law, EU constitutional law, and international contracts law in Brussels for almost 20 years.

Thomas has represented clients in some of the largest European cartel cases in recent years, including Cartonboard, Preisolated Pipes and Austrian Banks. He is the regular competition law adviser to SAP, which he has represented, inter alia, in the acquisition of Business Objects and the Oracle/PeopleSoft proceedings. He is recognised as one of the leading authorities in EU state aid law. He has acted for one of the German public banks (Landesbanken) in recent EU Commission proceedings and has acted for investors and governments in investment aid proceedings. He has assisted a European country in the privatisation of its national airline and another country in bringing its tax laws in line with EU state aid law. His public procurement experience has included a successful court action by one of the bidders for the privatisation of the Berlin airports. He has represented clients in a number of proceedings before the European courts in Luxembourg, including cartel and state aid cases, and a leading case on the interpretation of EU Television without Frontiers Directive.

Thomas is co-author of a leading German commentary on competition law (Langen/Bunte), Hancher/Ottervanger/Slot EU State Aids, the main German-language publication on state aid law, the Lexis/Nexis European Competition Laws Guide, as well as the author of more than 25 articles on competition law subjects. He is a co-founder and board member of the Berlin Roundtable on EU State Aid Law.