Visiting professor, European Legal Studies Department
Bernd Meyring is widely recognised as a leading European competition lawyer. He has been advising major national and international corporates, banks and institutions on all areas of competition law for over 20 years, with a focus on EU and global merger control and foreign direct investment proceedings, anti-cartel and unilateral conduct investigations and state aid matters. He has acted in a wide range of competition and foreign investment regulators in and outside Europe and conducted proceedings in English, French, German and Dutch.
He is an experienced litigator before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union where he has represented clients in well above hundred cases, on matters involving antitrust, state aid, transparency, financial and environmental regulation and the fundamental freedoms.
Bernd is the Global Head of the Antitrust and Foreign Investment practice at Linklaters and the president of the College of Europe’s Global Competition Law Centre. Before his appointment at the College of Europe he lectured at the University of Strasbourg and at the University of Frankfurt/Main.
Bernd studied law at the universities of Würzburg and Munich, holds a master’s in law from the College of Europe, is an ancien élève of the French École Nationale d'Administration, and holds a Ph.D. in international law from the Humboldt University of Berlin.
Main Publications
‘Competition Law and Regulation: what tool and when?”, EU Law Live, 03/2024
“Signalling—When Should We Worry?”, JECLAP, 7/2020
“EU Merger Regulation -- Review of 2017 and beyond” (with Neil Hoolihan), JECLAP, 03/2019
“Recent Enforcement Trends in EU Competition Law”, Today’s General Counsel, 11/2014
“Kartellrecht im Unternehmenskauf” (Competition Law in M&A transactions), Holzapfel/Pöllath: Der Unternehmenskauf in Recht und Praxis, 15th edition, Köln, 2016
“Interim measures pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation 1/2003”, in: 10 years of Regulation 1/2003, GCLC Annual conference Series 2015 (ed. Merola, Petit, Rivas)
“Umbrella pricing” (with Melissa Gotlieb), Competition Law Insight, 2014
“How much consistency is required for cartel fines?”, JECLAP 2013, 142
“Fragen zum neuen Kartellrecht”, Wirtschaftswoche Nr. 25, 17.6.2013
“Le droit de la concurrence et la transparence: une quadrature du cercle?”, JDE 2012, 294
“Uferlose Haftung in Kartellbußgeldverfahren: Neueste Theorien der Kommission zur Zurechnung von Kartelverstößen”, WuW 2010, S. 4-15
“T-Mobile: Further confusion on information exchanges between competitors”, JECLAP 2010,30
“Going Private. DG Comp’s long shot at boosting private enforcement”, Competition Law Insight, 17 November 2009, 3-5
“Private competition law enforcement in the European Union”, The Private Competition Enforcement Review 2009
“Fusionskontrolle zwischen zwei Stühlen” (The merger control dilemma), Meyring/Hermes, 2007 Zeitschrift für Wettbewerbsrecht (ZWeR), 108 et seq.
“Europarechtliche Stillhalteverpflichtungen bei der nationalen Gesetzgebung” (Stand still obligations for national legislators under European Law), 2003 Europarecht (EuR), 949 et seq.
“Le Parlement français et les traités internationaux” (The French Parliament’s role in international treaties), Master en administration publique (MPA), 2001
“Die Entwicklung zustimmungsbedürftiger völkerrechtlicher Verträge nach ihrem Abschluss und ihre Auswirkungen in der deutschen Rechtsordnung” (The dynamic evolution of international treaties in the German legal system), 2001
“Die Reform der Bereiche Justiz und Inneres durch den Amsterdamer Vertrag” (The reform of the second and third pillars in the Treaty of Amsterdam), 1999 Europarecht (EuR), 309 et seq.
“When is a Statutory Monopoly Contrary to the E.C. Treaty?”, 1998 European Law Reporter (ELR), 364 et seq.
“Intergovernmentalism and Supranationality: Two Stereotypes for a Complex Reality”, 1997 European Law Reporter (ELR), 221 et seq.