Noerr

Commerce & Trade, Antitrust & Competition

Karsten Metzlaff is a Partner in Noerr's Commerce & Trade and also Antitrust & Competition Practice Group in Noerr's Berlin office. He specialises in EU and German merger control, cartels, monopolies, state aid, competition compliance. Karsten Metzlaff represents clients before the EU Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office and European and German courts. He has extensive experience in automotive, financial services, retail, food and media regulation.

Directorate for Competition at EC Commission; Joined Noerr in 1999; Partner since 2001.

Speaks German (native language), English, French and Spanish.

International Bar Association (IBA), Senior Vice Chair; International Franchising Law Committee and Member of Antitrust Law Committee; Antitrust Section of American Bar Association (ABA); German Antitrust Law Association (Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht); German Franchise Association (Deutschen Franchiseverband e.V.).

Educated at Universities of Munster, Hamburg, Lausanne and London. Lectures at the European University Viadrina (Germany).