Bio

For more than 15 years, Andreas Grunwald has been providing substantial antitrust advice on M&A strategy, representing public and private corporations in merger control proceedings before the German Federal Cartel Office and the European Commission. He has significant experience in coordinating multijurisdictional merger filings involving European, U.S., and Asian authorities. Andreas also counsels his clients on a wide range of operational issues, such as abuse of market dominance, information exchange, vertical agreements, antitrust compliance, and internal investigations. His practice includes antitrust litigation, specifically with regard to cartel damage claims. Andreas’ practice also focuses on regulatory matters, primarily in the technology, media, and telecoms (TMT) sector, where he advises clients on matters such as licensing requirements, access regulation, spectrum issues, platform regulation, youth protection, and price regulation under German and EU laws. This includes the development of public policy strategies and representation before regulatory agencies such as the German Federal Network Agency and in court. Andreas teaches media and competition law at the University of Münster. He studied law in Würzburg and Münster (Dr. iur.) and was a research fellow (1996-2000) with Professor Dr. Bernd Holznagel at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law (ITM) in Münster; a visiting scholar at the Communications Media Center of New York Law School (1998); and an international fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (1999). Andreas also served as an expert consultant to the Council of Europe and the European Commission, and he is a founding editor of the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy. Andreas is managing partner of Morrison & Foerster’s German office in Berlin and heads the German Antitrust practice. He is a member of the Global Antitrust Law practice group and serves as a member of our board of directors. He is based in our Berlin and Brussels offices.