Lars Hettstedt|Counsel
Lawyer
- Admitted to the German Bar since 2017, joined ARNECKE SIBETH DABELSTEIN in 2022
- Advice on German and European antitrust law, including merger control, abuse supervision, and cartel proceedings.
- Support in designing antitrust-compliant distribution and cooperation strategies, as well as at the interfaces of antitrust, state aid, and public procurement law, including representation in proceedings before the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office, and national courts.
- Advice and representation in complex regulatory and compliance matters, helping companies operating in regulated markets to act in a legally secure and compliant manner.
- Professional experience: Scope Group (2021-2022); Euler Hermes AG, Export Credit Guarantees of the Federal Republic of Germany, Department General Counsel (2020-2021); Dentons (2018-2020); Eversheds Sutherland (2016–2018)
- Legal clerkship in Leipzig, Munich and Dublin (2014-2016)
- Studies at the University of Leipzig and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2007-2014)
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- Languages: German, English
- Memberships:
- Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht e.V. (association of antitrust lawyers in Germany)
- Credentials:
- Advising a US Nürburgring bidder regarding state aid subsequent to the sale of the assets of the Nürburgring and representation of the client in the appeal proceedings before the European Court of Justice (C-665/19 P).
- Advice and legal representation of a telecommunications provider before civil courts, i. a., in interim relief proceedings due to the threat of granting of state aid.
- Advising a telecommunications provider on public procurement and State Aid law issues in the context of subsidized broadband expansion projects and representation in litigation before the administrative and civil courts.