Biography: Competition

Franz Urlesberger became partner with Schoenherr in 2007. He heads the firm's EU and competition practice group and works in the Vienna office. His practice focuses on all aspects of European and Austrian competition law and on multinational competition law matters in CEE. Franz represents and advises clients in a wide range of industries, including paper and packaging, energy, oil and media. He is engaged in all types of public and private litigation as well as out of court advice, and in merger control work. In addition, he has gained broad experience in supporting firms to implement comprehensive antitrust compliance programmes. Recent headline cases include the representation of Siemens AG Österreich in the European GIS cartel, of collecting society AKM in the European CISAC case, a Slovenian utility company before the European Courts, ASK in the printing chemicals cartel and a German company in the freight forwarding cartel. In 2011, Franz received the award for 'competition practitioner in Austria' from UK legal publisher ILO.

He obtained his law degrees from the University of Salzburg (Dr iur, 2000) and the London School of Economics (LLM, 1999). Since 2003 Franz Urlesberger has been a member of the Austrian Bar.

Franz Urlesberger is the author of numerous books and articles in his areas of specialisation. Only recently, he published a commentary on the Austrian Cartel Act where he contributed the chapter on merger control. Franz Urlesberger is also a permanent lecturer at the Austrian Lawyer's Academy.

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