Cornelius Fischer
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Dr Cornelius Fischer

Associate

Cornelius advises on all aspects of European and German competition law.

He holds a doctorate in competition law. 

Parallel to his doctoral studies and during his legal clerkship, Cornelius worked in the competition law teams of different major law firms and in a merger unit of the European Commission's DG COMP.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • A leading industrial company on defense of follow-up claims for damages in a cartel case.

Published Work

  • Konglomerate Marktmacht auf digitalen Märkten. Eine Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der neuartigen Marktmachtschwelle in § 19a Abs. 1 GWB, Duncker & Humblot, Schriften zum Wirtschaftsrecht, 2025

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V.

Awards

Cornelius received the Esche Schümann Commichau award for his doctoral thesis in competition law.

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as German Rechtsanwalt, 2025

Academic

Dr. iur., University of Osnabrück, Germany, 2024

Second German Law Degree, Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, Germany, 2024

First German Law Degree, Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany, 2019

Languages

German, English
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