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Robert Klotz

Practice includes all aspects of EC and German competition and regulatory law counseling and litigation with particular focus on energy and telecommunications clients.

Relevant Experience Hunton & Williams, Competition Practice, Partner, Brussels, since 2007.

  • Advises Czech electricity company in EU antitrust investigation
  • Advised several European energy companies on asset purchases resulting from EU antitrust investigations.
  • Advises the Energy Community Secretariat on State aid enforcement in electricity sector.
  • Advises German energy association BDEW on EU competition issues in the electricity sector.
  • Legal opinion for German energy regulator (Bundesnetzagentur) on long term gas infrastructure agreements.
  • Advises The Crown Estate on public procurement and competition issues related to offshore wind farms.
  • Legal opinion on EU requirements for local loop access pricing for German telecommunications association BREKO.
  • Legal opinion for German telecommunications associations VATM and BREKO on adverse effects of deregulation on competition in telecommunications.
  • Represents Airdata AG in complaint before European Commission regarding frequency allocation in Germany.
  • Advised Qisda Corporation on antitrust issues in international arbitration procedure.

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

  • Served as case manager/case handler in antitrust cases in gas and electricity: complaints, ex officio investigations, inspections, formal decisions and settlement negotiations.
  • Played a prominent role in the EU sector inquiries in gas and electricity, contributed to drafting of the final report with particular focus on unbundling.
  • Coordinated unit activities on water, petrol, exemptions from third party access to gas infrastructure, and exemptions from public procurement rules.

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

  • Served as case manager/case handler in antitrust and merger cases in fixed and mobile telephony and the Internet: complaints, ex officio investigations, inspections, formal decisions and settlement negotiations.
  • Achieved an abuse of dominance decision against an incumbent fixed telephony operator for a margin squeeze in a regulated market; later confirmed by the EU's General Court.
  • Monitored effective market opening and sector-specific regulation, handled infringement cases against EU Member states.
Membership
  • 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
Education
  • 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
Languages
  • German (native), English, French, Spanish


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