Antitrust/Competition

Stephanie Birmanns is counsel in the firm's Antitrust/Competition practice group. She is a German-qualified lawyer and has more than a decade of experience advising on a broad range of matters under German and European antitrust law.

Ms. Birmanns regularly represents clients in merger control cases before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office, including a number of complex second phase investigations with and without remedies. Her merger control practice also includes the assessment of filing obligations in other jurisdictions worldwide and the coordination of multijurisdictional filings.

In addition, Ms. Birmanns has extensive experience in representing clients in cartel investigations before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. She also frequently advises on numerous other matters, including antitrust complaints, compliance programs, horizontal and vertical collaborations, commercial arrangements, and antitrust litigation.

Among other industries, Ms. Birmanns has gained significant experience in the (petro) chemical, electricity, paper, transport, insurance, biotechnology, and medical industries.

Prior to joining Arnold & Porter, Ms. Birmanns worked with another US law firm in Germany and Brussels. She is fluent in English and German.

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Antitrust/Competition Representative Matters

• EU and international merger control advice to General Electric Company in various matters.
• German and international merger control advice to Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp. in Grifols SA's US$3 billion acquisition of Talecris.
• EU and international merger control advice to semiconductor manufacturers Renesas Technology Corp. and NEC Electronics Corporation regarding their merger to form Renesas Electronics.
• EU and international merger control advice to a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund in several acquisitions of industrial participations in Europe.
• EU merger control advice to Siemens in its acquisition of Austrian VA Technologies AG and its US$3.5 billion acquisition of UGS Corporation, a leading supplier of Product Lifecycle Management software and services.
• EU and German merger control advice to P.H. Glatfelter Company in its acquisitions of Concent Industries, MPL and the Lydney wetlaid fibre business.
• EU merger control advice to BASF AG in its €2.7 billion acquisition of Degussa Construction Chemicals.
• EU and international merger control advice to Renolit Group in its acquisition of the industrial foil activities of Solvay SA and its acquisition of the industrial foil and nonwovens business of BP.
• Antitrust advice to Areva in several procedures under Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and equivalent national laws.