Practice Focus

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, Washington DC, and New York, 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.

Ms. Schild was selected to Global Competition Review's international "Women in Antitrust" list in 2009.

Representative Matters

• Areva in several procedures under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and equivalent national laws, as well in its joint venture with Urenco in the uranium enrichment technology area and in its acquisition of Alstom's transmission and distribution business
• Siemens in its acquisition of Austrian VA Technologie AG and its US$3.5 billion acquisition of UGS Corporation, a leading supplier of Product Lifecycle Management software and services
• Société Générale in a merger of its brokerage activities with those of Calyon Financial
• BASF AG in its unsolicited tender offer for Engelhard, its €2.7 billion acquisition of Degussa Construction Chemicals, in connection with a cooperation agreement with Monsanto, and in connection with certain strategic acquisitions
• Glatfelter Corporation in its acquisition of the Lydney wetlaid fibre business, and its acquisition of MPL
• eMusic in its relationship with certain European collecting societies
• Eramet in various acquisition procedures
• Paramount Pictures Corporation in its acquisition of DreamWorks SKG and in a procedure under Article 81 of the EC Treaty
• Wienerberger in its bid for the Lafarge roofing business