Hamburg
+49 40 35 52 80-20 +49 40 35 52 80-80 s.bretthauer@heuking.de
Languages
German, English
Practice groups/Expertise
Consulting focuses
- Antitrust Law
- Distribution Law
- Arbitration
- Merger Control
- Antitrust Litigation
- Antitrust Compliance
- Antitrust fine proceedings
- Energy Law
Vita
- Head of the Antitrust Practice Group
- Admitted to the Bar since 2002
- Education and former activities
- University of Würzburg (Dr. jur.), Lecturer at the University of Hamburg2002
- Legal Traineeship in the Antitrust Law Department of a leading U.S. law firm in Washington, D.C./U.S.A.
- Legal Trainee (Referendar) in the District of the Higher Regional Court of Bamberg1999-2001
- Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg1997-1999
- University of Sheffield/United Kingdom1996-1997
- University of Trier1994-1996
Affiliations
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- German Association for Distribution Law (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Vertriebsrecht e.V.)
- German Antitrust Law Association
- German Institution of Arbitration (DIS)
- Jurists Alumni Würzburg
- Chair of the northern regional section of Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (German Antitrust Law Association) (2019-2021)
Dr. Stefan Bretthauer's Distinctions
JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2024/2025
Handelsblatt: Deutschlands Beste Anwälte 2024
Best Lawyers 2025
Legal 500 EMEA 2024
Latest news
Publications
2025
Bundeskartellamt publishes final report on sector inquiry into fuel wholesale: Critical view of price quotation systems – a precedent for measures under the new Section 32f GWB?
Update Antitrust 1/2025, 24. February 24, 2025,
together with Jia-Xi Liu2024
ICLG – Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2024
Germany: Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2024,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert Commentary on the „appreciable effect” of the restraint of competition according to Art. 101(1) TFEU and on Art. 5-10 of the Vertical Block Exemption Regulation
Beck’scher Online-Kommentar zum Kartellrecht
2023
Merger Control Country Comparative Guide 2023 (Germany)
ICLG – Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2023
Germany: Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2023,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert2022
International Comparative Legal Guide - Vertical Agreements and Dominant Firms 2022
Chapter Germany, August 2022,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert Grundzüge des Wettbewerbs- und Kartellrechts
Stober/Paschke (Hrsg.), Deutsches und Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht, 4th edition 2022,
together with Dr. Søren Pietzcker, LL.M. (University of Illinois), Dr. Verena Hoene, LL.M. (University of Washington) Neue Vertikal-GVO und -Leitlinien: Was bleibt, was ändert sich?
Update Antitrust, May 31 2022,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert2021
Merger Control Country Comparative Guide (Germany)
ARC Digitalisation Act
Update Antitrust January 2021,
together with Dr. Reinhard Siegert, Dr. Rainer Velte, Dr. Frederik Wiemer, Beatrice Stange, LL.M. (King’s College London), Anita Bohn, LL.M. (University of London), Dr. Ruth Jungkind (nee Schneider)Lectures
2024
International Competition Lawyers Network Conference, Wien, Sustainability, the Environment and Competition Law
Panelist, September 12-13, 2024
2022
International Competition Lawyers Network Conference, London, Competition Law in the Courts – New Developments
Panelist, October 27, 2022
2021
Regular block lectures on German and European antitrust law
in St. Petersburg as part of the post-graduate programme on International Business Law, organized by the University of Hamburg, the Chamber of Commerce Hamburg, the National University of St. Petersburg and the DAAD, since 2006