Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiede, LL.M.

Thomas Thiede specialises in advising and representing clients in all matters of German and European antitrust law as well as commercial and corporate law. He advises companies in particular in the context of merger control by antitrust authorities, in cartel fine proceedings, in the defence and enforcement of antitrust damages claims as well as in the drafting of contracts and distribution systems in compliance with antitrust law. He also specialises in corporate law advice and litigation, in particular in corporate transactions. Due to his many years of international experience, he is regularly consulted on cross-border matters and the drafting of English-language contractual documents.

He studied law, economics and political science at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 2003 and worked as a research assistant for Prof Dr Stefan Habermeier. This was followed by a Master's degree and the First State Examination in Law (2006). He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for European Tort Law at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and received his doctorate under Prof. Dr Bernhard Koch, LL.M. and retired Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Helmut Koziol. Helmut Koziol. His dissertation on the cross-border violation of personal rights by mass media was honoured with the Franz Gschnitzer Award.