Dr Falk Schöning
Falk Schöning helps clients with all aspects of EU and German antitrust law, EU State Aid, foreign investment control, and export control. He focuses his practice on international cases which require coordination between different legal systems or representation vis-à-vis several regulators. Falk regularly advises clients on structuring transactions, joint ventures or divestitures, and represents them in merger control and foreign investment control proceedings to ensure M&A transactions are successfully closed. He has extensive experience handling complex global mergers in front of the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office and Ministry of Economics, and coordinating merger and FDI filings in jurisdictions globally. Falk also has ample experience with representing Chinese acquirers or German parties in transactions with Chinese buyers in FDI review procedures, including negotiating remedy agreements. In this context, thanks to his first-hand experience of policymaking in Brussels and Berlin, Falk can also assist clients effectively in policy advocacy projects both in Germany and at EU level.