Biography: Competition

Annette Schild is a partner in the antitrust and competition practice group where she concentrates her practice in merger and acquisition transactions. Having worked in Brussels, New York, and Washington, DC, Ms Schild has successfully defended numerous companies in investigations of their proposed mergers by the EU, German, and French competition authorities. Ms Schild has also advised on numerous other high-profile matters, including cartel investigations, antitrust complaints, horizontal and vertical collaborations, commercial arrangements, and intellectual property matters. Among other industries, Ms Schild has gained significant experience in the nuclear, aerospace, power generation, (petro)chemical, new media, mining, and medical industries. Ms Schild regularly lectures on EU competition law issues and is a co-author of the Munich and the Brussels commentaries on European and German competition law. She is fluent in German, French, and English.

She has advised BASF, the world's largest chemical company, with respect to EU merger control procedures in connection with a number of acquisitions, most recently Cognis. She also regularly works for Areva and has represented the company in several appeals to the European courts in relation to Article 101 TFEU decisions, as well as in its joint venture with Urenco in the uranium enrichment technology area and in its acquisition and later sale of Alstom's transmission and distribution business. She also advised Siemens in its acquisition of Austrian VA Technologie AG and its US$3.5 billion acquisition of UGS Corporation, Société Générale in a merger of its brokerage activities with those of Calyon Financial; and Paramount Pictures Corporation in various national and EU procedures as well as in its acquisition of DreamWorks SKG.