• Advises The Crown Estate on public procurement and competition issues related to offshore wind farms.
• Advises Qisda Corporation on antitrust issues as part of international arbitration procedure.
• Drafts legal opinion for the German energy regulator (Bundesnetzagentur) on long term gas infrastructure agreements.
• Advises German association BREKO on various aspects of EC regulatory framework in telecommunications.
• Represents Airdata AG in complaint before European Commission regarding frequency allocation in Germany.
• Drafted legal opinion for BREKO on EC law requirements for setting the local loop access price in Germany.
• Drafted legal opinion for German associations VATM and BREKO on adverse effects of deregulation on competition in telecommunications.
• Advised several European energy companies on issues related to competition and the EC regulatory framework.
• Advised several renewable energy operators on antitrust, public procurement and State aid issues.

European Commission, Competition Directorate-General, Energy and Water Unit, Brussels, 2003-2007.

• Served as case manager/case handler in numerous antitrust cases under Articles 81 and 82 EC-Treaty in gas and electricity, dealing with complaints, ex officio investigations, inspections, formal decisions and settlement negotiations.
• Played a prominent role in the launch and conduct of the EU wide sector inquiries in gas and electricity, contributed to the drafting of the final report with particular focus on unbundling.
• Coordinated unit activities on horizontal issues, including water, petrol, exemptions from third party access to gas infrastructure, and exemptions from the public procurement rules.

European Commission, Competition Directorate-General, Telecommunication and Post Unit, Brussels, 1998-2003.

• Served as case manager/case handler in numerous antitrust cases under Articles 81 and 82 EC-Treaty as well as mergers in fixed and mobile telephony and the Internet, dealing with complaints, ex officio investigations, inspections, formal decisions and settlement negotiations.
• Achieved an Article 82 decision against an incumbent fixed telephony operator for a margin squeeze type of abuse in a regulated market.
• Monitored national implementation with regard to effective market opening and sector-specific regulation in telecommunications and dealt with several cases against EU Member states under Articles 86 or 226 EC-Treaty.

• Member, Hamburg Bar and Brussels Bar E-List
• Member, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht
• Founding Member, Industry Advisory Board, International Energy Forum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Founding Member, Industry Advisory Board and Faculty, Master of European Regulation of Network Industries (MERNI), Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), University of Bonn, Germany
• Member, Faculty, Master of European Studies (MES), ZEI, University of Bonn, Germany
• Member, Faculty, Master of European Law, Europa-Institut, University of Saarbrücken, Germany

• Second Legal State Examination, specialization in business law, High Court Hamburg, 1994, after legal traineeship in penal, civil and administrative Courts, European Commission, DG Competition, global law firm
  
• University of Montpellier, France, D.E.A. Droit des Affaires, master studies in French and EU business law with particular focus on contract and antitrust law, 1992
  
• University of Hamburg, First Legal State Examination after general law studies with specialization in EU law, 1991
  

• German (native), English, French, Spanish