Practice Focus

Stephanie Birmanns is counsel in the firm’s antitrust/competition practice group. She is a German qualified lawyer and has more than nine years experience practicing German and European antitrust law in Germany and Brussels.

Ms. Birmanns has successfully represented clients in high-profile merger control and cartel cases 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 petrochemical, electricity, paper, transport, insurance, and medical industries. She is fluent in English and German.

Representative Matters

• A Middle-Eastern sovereign wealth fund in several acquisitions of industrial participations in Europe
• 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
• P.H. Glatfelter Company in its acquisitions of Concent Industries, MPL and the Lydney wetlaid fibre business
• BASF AG in its €2.7 billion acquisition of Degussa Construction Chemicals
• 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
• Areva in several procedures under Article 81 of the EC Treaty and equivalent national laws