Biography: Competition

Horst Satzky has been a partner in the Frankfurt and Brussels offices of Hengeler Mueller since 1993. Before joining the law firm, he worked at the German Federal Cartel Office as a case handler, subsequently moving on secondment to the Federal Economics Ministry.

Mr Satzky specialises in German and European competition and antitrust law, principally merger control and article 101/102 TFEU cases. He is also experienced in coordinating multi jurisdictional filings.

Recent competition-related cases handled by Mr Satzky include: acquisition by Deutsche Bank of Sal Oppenheim; acquisition by JCDecaux SA of Wall; state liability claim of GN Store Nord against Germany for an unlawful merger prohibition by the Federal Cartel Office; acquisition by Software AG of IDS Scheer; acquisition by Deutsche Bank of Postbank; representation of Deutscher Fussball-Bund in antitrust proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office.

He has published several books and articles on European and German competition law.

Hengeler Mueller is widely recognised as a pre-eminent commercial law firm. Horst Satzky is one of seven partners in the firm's competition group which operates out of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Brussels and covers all areas of competition and regulatory matters. In 2011, Hengeler Mueller has become the first German firm to be ranked as one of the leading 20 law firms in the world for antitrust and competition law by the renowned UK publisher Global Competition Review.